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>>Who came first - man or the animals? Proofs from chapter 1 and 2 both, please.

Genesis 1 specifically states on which day things were created.

Fish and fowl on the fifth day Genesis 1:20-23. All animals and man on the sixth day, Genesis 1:24-31 with animals first then man.

Genesis 2 has no chronological order given. There can be no “proof” shown from Genesis 2 other than to “prove” that Adam was on the earth for some time before Eve. Adam had already named all the animals before Eve was formed.

Now I have a question of you. Why, according to the RCC, did a perfect God create a total mess as His first act of creation?

>>Who came first - man or the animals? Proofs from chapter 1 and 2 both, please.
Genesis 1 specifically states on which day things were created.
Fish and fowl on the fifth day Genesis 1:20-23. All animals and man on the sixth day, Genesis 1:24-31 with animals first then man.

Genesis 2: 15The LORD God then took the man and settled him in the garden of Eden, to cultivate and care for it.h 16The LORD God gave the man this order: You are free to eat from any of the trees of the gardeni 17except the tree of knowledge of good and evil. From that tree you shall not eat; when you eat from it you shall die.* j

18The LORD God said: It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suited to him.* k 19So the LORD God formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds of the air, and he brought them to the man to see what he would call them; whatever the man called each living creature was then its name.

Verse 15 shows that the man was already created. The animals were not created until verse 19. Verse 15 happens prior to verse 19. Even in the topsy turvy world of the Reformation, there must be an understanding of order and precedence.

Now I have a question of you. Why, according to the RCC, did a perfect God create a total mess as His first act of creation?

Since the Church doesn't claim that, I must simply put your question aside.