From: Walter Hicks <wallyshoes@mindspring.com>
> Jim Eisele wrote:
> >
> > If you don't think the Bible is accurate somewhere, SAY WHERE!!!!!
> > I already believe the Bible is accurate, except for translator/scribal
> > errors. And I agree with many who have stated that discussion of
> > interpretation is extremely beneficial.
> KJV:
> 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.
There is a simple solution to this apparent conundrum. The NIV translates
it this way: GE 2:19 "Now the LORD God HAD FORMED out of the ground all the
beasts of the field and all the birds of the air." This makes verse 19
parenthetical; referring to what God HAD previously done. Thus God brings
to Adam the beasts and birds which had been previously created for Adam to
name.
The same thing goes for verses 7 and 8.
GE 2:7 the LORD God formed the man* from the dust of the ground and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living
being.
GE 2:8 Now the LORD God HAD PLANTED a garden in the east, in Eden; and
there he put the man he had formed.
This does not say that God formed man and then planted a garden, but rather
that God formed man and put him in the garden he had already planted.
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