[WackyKat]

If Genesis is so clear, why does it recite two different, contradictory versions of the Creation?

[bondserv]

Chapter 2 is a recounting of chapter 1 with more detail associated with Adam and the place God moved him to, Eden.

Also God created again each of the animals before Adam's face so that Adam could name them, as well as to have no question in Adam's mind who the creator is.

P.S. Eve missed that display of creating power. Adam chose of his free-will to sin knowingly, Eve was deceived by Satan.

[scripter]

If Genesis is so clear, why does it recite two different, contradictory versions of the Creation?

There's Hebrew literary devices called redundancy and parallel accounts that explain it quite well. Most people don't know anything about Hebrew literary devices so it's a common mistake to think there are two different, contradictory versions.

As the article stated, the Documentary Hypothesis has been thoroughly shredded by modern (actually it was 20th century) scholarship.

[MissAmericanPie]

Contradictory? Can you clarify what you mean?

[Elsie]

If Genesis is so clear, why does it recite two different, contradictory versions of the Creation?

If Moses was so smart, how come he wrote two different, contradictory versions of the Creation?

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Wouldn't SOMEONE have 'noticed' that early on and 'evened' out the account?

[Robert A Cook PE]

They are two different stories, each written for a different purpose.

The first tells the story of the world - how God created it for all mankind.

The second tells the story of how the Jews were inspired and were inspired to develope their religion of the one true God.

Like the later parables and poetry that Jesus used to explain things using stories, the two versions don't contradict each other, because they try to explain the secular story of creation, not matters of "Faith" and "Morals" that are absolute Truth.

[Geritol]

The first account is a chronological acount. The second follows the traditional wedding feast love story format with the life story of the man and woman in a more emotional format that rehashes the events in a personal impact style instead of a strictly logical chronology.