I was happy to find out my Douay Rheims had caught that subtle difference also:
And the Lord God having formed out of the ground all the beasts of the earth, and all the fowls of the air, brought them to Adam...
That's all you really have to know about this issue and the Holy Spirit, who wrote the Bible, will clarify it for anyone who is willing to be taught.
Jesus said God's words are spirit and life. He also said man's carnal mind cannot discern God's spirit. It takes a regenerated mind with the help of the Holy Spirit to read and understand the Bible the way God intended it to be understood.
Seeing The Bible as a “library” of information also aids its understanding.
Interesting website. Thank you.
The HUGE mistake that many people make is to take an English version of the Hebrew Bible and accept it (no pun intended) as gospel. No, it isn’t. It was written in Hebrew, which is a very complex language with many subtleties that get lost when translating it to other languages. Then it was translated into Greek; then to Latin and then to old English, and finally to the English that we speak, read and write today. MUCH understanding has been lost by the vast majority of the world, which doesn’t read or understand Hebrew (and doesn’t care to, for that matter).
Someone thinks that the set of questions posed in this article are new? Well, not quite, they’re only off by about 3,400 years. While I’m no scholar, I am about as certain as I can be of anything that this was discussed in detail in the Oral Torah (also called the Mishne Torah), which was given by G-d to Moses on Mt. Sinai (what do you think that he was doing up there for 40 days?), and that both the Torah and Oral Torah accounts of these events was discussed at great length over the course of over a thousand years by hundreds of great members of the Sanhedrin and great rabbis - all of whom spoke, read and wrote in fluent Hebrew.
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In a college class long time ago we discussed this topic and the current theory then was Genesis was a composite of the same event as told by 3 different groups.
Another oddity is that God is addressed three ways, and parts of Genesis are often repeated under each different name. God, Lord, and Lord God.
But it’s been many many years.
This thread is another opportunity for us to re-visit the "Genesis 1 vs Genesis 2 'Adam & Eve'" conversation we were having a month or so ago -- and which I, for my own reasons, truncated.
Shall we...?
Interesting.
Did you realize that there is no contradictions at all, in any way, between every sequence of every step in Chapter I Genesis and today’s modern physics version?
Even to today’s snakes evolving/being formed last - after all other creatures. The nuclear physics is right, the planetary formation is right, the geology is right, the biology and the formation of life is right.
If God says that he created the heaven and the earth, and all therein, in 6 days, so be it.
Which is harder, doing that, or making a completely dead body (every last cell dead) alive again?
I have a 61 yr old brain. Just the massive audio/video storage ability is amazing, let alone the other capabilities. God can restore all of that memory, even after that brain has been totally and completely dead for days. Contrary to the doctors opinion of when death takes place; you are dead when the blood is dead.
God’s creation is a miracle to us, but, routine for God. His ways are simply past finding out.
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Genisis is an oral tradition, but the amazing thing is the Bible Codes embedded in the written version.
I don’t think much should be made of the oral traditions personally. But there are amazing historic truths, such as the Land of Cain [Canaan] which did indeed have the first known large scale smelting facility. [Smelted copper for the Sumerians.]
Also, oral traditions similar to the Arc are all over the world.
Just read Rashi, Ramban, or some other classic commentator on Genesis.
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