Walt writes
GENESIS 1
>25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle
>after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his
>kind: and God saw that it was good.
>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.
GENESIS 2
>18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I
>will make him an help meet for him.
>19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field,
>and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he
>would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living
>creature, that was the name thereof.
>Which was created first, man or beast? Which is accurate and which is
>not? If both are accurate, please explain.
Hi Walt. Gen 1 is, in fact, a different story than Gen 2. The Hebrew
for God, beginning in Gen 2:4, is different and more personal than Gen 1.
Gen 1 is creation of the universe/earth.
Gen 2 tells of the garden of Eden only. I've seen it claimed that you
can read the Hebrew as "God had created the beasts in the past."
Also, the garden of Eden was a miraculous place (Adam being formed
from dust, Eve from a rib, tree of knowledge of good and evil,
tree of life, God bringing the beasts of the field and the birds
of the sky to Adam for naming, uh, lack of self-consciousness).
If God wanted to specially create some beasts and birds, who am
I to question?
Jim
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