After reading chapter 2, some things to consider:
*Verses1-3 appear to be the end of the creation story of chapter 1.
*Why would an all powerful, eternal, spirit being need to rest? (v. 3) Rest is a need for physical life.
*Notice that there is a second, different, account of creation that begins at verse 4.
*In this second creation story, there are no days assigned to specific events. Here God creates man before plants, unlike chapter 1. Here, man is not made in God's image, he is made of dust and animated by God's breath. He is deposited in the ready made garden like a doll.
*How does a non-physical being (God )breathe? How does a non-physical being DO anything?
*Also unlike chapter 1, here male and female are created separately. Woman appears to be an afterthought, only created after animals would not do. Surely we all realize that woman could not have originated from a rib? How would we explain the females of all other forms of life? A commenter on the Friendly Atheist site mentioned that Adam's rib would have had X and Y chromosomes in its cells. Adam's rib would have produced a genetic male, identical to himself, not a woman with two X chromosomes.
* Paradisiacal gardens and trees of life were common mythological symbols in many ancient cultures, even before Moses would have written the bible in the 1400's B.C.E. Certainly, these stories existed long before the supposedly more accurate historical date of the writings in Genesis, the 7th century B.C.E. They typically were associated with gods and immortality. The physical form of the trees of life varied according to the geography. There were Apple trees, figs, and palms, to name a few.
Creation stories are found in almost every culture.
Edited 9/11/15
*Verses1-3 appear to be the end of the creation story of chapter 1.
*Why would an all powerful, eternal, spirit being need to rest? (v. 3) Rest is a need for physical life.
*Notice that there is a second, different, account of creation that begins at verse 4.
*In this second creation story, there are no days assigned to specific events. Here God creates man before plants, unlike chapter 1. Here, man is not made in God's image, he is made of dust and animated by God's breath. He is deposited in the ready made garden like a doll.
*How does a non-physical being (God )breathe? How does a non-physical being DO anything?
*Also unlike chapter 1, here male and female are created separately. Woman appears to be an afterthought, only created after animals would not do. Surely we all realize that woman could not have originated from a rib? How would we explain the females of all other forms of life? A commenter on the Friendly Atheist site mentioned that Adam's rib would have had X and Y chromosomes in its cells. Adam's rib would have produced a genetic male, identical to himself, not a woman with two X chromosomes.
* Paradisiacal gardens and trees of life were common mythological symbols in many ancient cultures, even before Moses would have written the bible in the 1400's B.C.E. Certainly, these stories existed long before the supposedly more accurate historical date of the writings in Genesis, the 7th century B.C.E. They typically were associated with gods and immortality. The physical form of the trees of life varied according to the geography. There were Apple trees, figs, and palms, to name a few.
Creation stories are found in almost every culture.
Edited 9/11/15
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