The sixth day was the last day of creation, so there was no later, as far as that goes.
If we say we are to take the word of God literally shouldn’t we take that into consideration?
“The sixth day was the last day of creation, so there was no later, as far as that goes.”
Bullcrap! That was NOT end of creation, because we are created in God’s image and we never stop creating as long as we exist...
Oh by the way Christians are eternal beings just like God, it’s just a matter of where we spend that time and how long. God did not quit creating with the sixth day, that is NOT in the Bible.
“I think the Bible tells us that God rested on the seventh day and it was only after that that he made Adam from the dirt.”
No, if you read Genesis 1, we are told that man was created on day 6. Chapter 2 tells us HOW He did it.
“I think the Bible tells us that God rested on the seventh day...”
Yes, the Bible says that.
“...and it was only after that that he made Adam from the dirt.”
No, the Bible doesn’t say that.
“If we say we are to take the word of God literally shouldn’t we take that into consideration?”
Nobody takes the word of God absolutely literally, not even fundamentalists, but that is besides the point, since you are already reading things into Genesis that are not written (such as your assumption that Genesis 2 is a chronological continuation of the narrative in Genesis 1).
Genesis 1 shows Adam created on the 6th day. Genesis 1 gives us the ‘telescoping” of creation. Genesis 2 gives is the “microscoping” approach with Adam and Eve the center of subject.
Genesis 1:
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.