I especially love the moment in
the second creation account that matches the culmination of the first creation account, when God sees everything he has made and «behold, it was very good» (Gen. 1:31).
Why is there
a second creation account in Genesis 2?
In
the second Creation account of Genesis, after God formed man from the dust of the earth and placed him in the garden of Eden, God says, «It is not good for the man to be alone.
The second creation account does not.
The second definition fits
the second creation account in that it provided the moral imperative needed to support the patriarchal Hebrew culture at that time.
Not exact matches
Strangely, this
second account of
creation is also abstract, but not as vague.
What we do with this difference in the two
creation accounts is, first, acknowledge it, and
second, explain that they are both there because each was a part of one of the two or three sacred traditions put together by an editor to make up the book of Genesis.
The
second account just gives more details regarding the
creation of man - has nothing to do with chronology.
These examples show that, just as the
creation account of Genesis 1 should be read in light of other Ancient Near Eastern
creation texts, so the New Testament writers should be read in light of
Second Temple texts.
In themselves the Old Testament traditions concerning
creation, whether in the Priestly (Genesis 1) or Yahwistic (Genesis 2)
accounts, or in
Second Isaiah, Job, or the Psalms, do not insist upon this.
Other important differences indicate that the
second story is not simply a magnified and more detailed
account of the
creation of man already reported in Genesis 1.
It seems Jesus was making this connection when he jumped from the first
creation account to the
second, from «he made them male and female» to «therefore a man [ish] shall leave father and mother and cleave to his woman [ishshah], and the two shall become one flesh» (Matt.
Reading the first
creation account in light of the
second, we see that the
creation is not called «very good» until we have the human male and female.
Just for example, it strikes me that the most logical interpretation of the two Genesis stories is that the first is an overview of the whole
creation story, the
second a more detailed
account focusing on man's story.
It's amazing how many people take the first part where «one day with the Lord is as a thousand years» as a scale so they can «interpret» prophecy and Biblical
accounts such as the
creation to fit their world view without any consideration for the
second part where «and a thousand years is as one day».
In his opening and closing remarks, Peter Van Scoyoc, a Democrat serving his
second term on the town board, pointed to his record, and that of the sitting board, on open space preservation, water quality protection efforts, energy efficiency, social services, obtaining grants, and planning for the future through ongoing hamlet studies and
creation of a plan that
accounts for rising sea level and shoreline erosion.
Once your
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The pack includes: Introduction to the course; Evolution; Religious and non-religious views of
creation; Imago Dei; The value of human life and abortion; Humanist critiques of catholic attitudes to abortion; Revelation; Stewardship; First &
Second accounts of
creation in Genesis; Human Dignity Human Dignity and the Sheep and Goats.
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account.
The approximately 6 % rise in «Evolution, but God guided» in the
second form of the questionaire relative to the form quoted above probably represents a shift of those whose interpretation of «exactly as the Bible describes» allows them to consider
creation prior to 10,000 years ago as consistent with the Biblical
creation accounts.