What are the two accounts of Creation in the Bible?

Answer 1

There are two parts of the one creation story. The first part is chronological, summarises the six days of creation, and is found in Genesis 1:1 to 2:4. The second part is found from 2:4 and gives detail to the creation of man and is not chronological.

2ND ANSWER

Re-thinking the single creation theory

There were 2 creations of man on two different days. One on the 6th day and another on the 8th day, after the Sabbath.

The Numbers 7 & 8 are sacred to the Jews, I read . .

the number seven symbolizes perfection - perfection that is achievable via natural means - while eight symbolizes that which is beyond nature and its (inherently limited) perfection.

Genesis 1:26-28

1st man "adam" was created through a command GOD gave to the earth, both male and female, came forth from the ground. FYI (adam is the Hebrew word for man, mankind, human beings, etc. The word "man" was a bad English translation in this verse. A better translation would have been mankind. or humans.)

Genesis 2:5b-7

2nd man was "haadam" and was formed by the hands of GOD and not by a command given to the earth. FYI (haadam is the Hebrew word for "the man", and I believe this "special" man has a special purpose. Because through him, whom we call Adam, the Messiah would be born thousands of years later.

(Adam - Noah - David - Jesus)

I use the Jewish Bible in my studies among other sources.

How accurate is the Jewish Bible?

Jeremiah is the first to mention the scribes as a professional group: "How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? Lo, certainly in vain make he it; the pen of the scribes (sopherim) is in vain" (Jer.8:8).

The word sopherim literally means "the counters"; the early scribes earned this title because they counted every letter of every book of Scripture to make sure they didn't leave out anything.

After the Jews returned from Exile, they formed communities of scribes to preserve and circulate the Scriptures that had become so precious to them. These scribes ( later called the Masoretes ) tried to explain the variations in different manuscripts. They eventually developed a system of vowel pointing that preserved the pronunciation of the Hebrew words.

Before he began his work each day, the scribe would test his reed pen by dipping it in ink and writing the name Amalek, then crossing it out (cf. Deut. 25:19). Then he would say, "I am writing the Torah in the name of its sanctity and the name of God in its sanctity." The scribe would read a sentence in the manuscript he was copying, repeat it aloud, and then write it. Each time he came to the name of God, he would say, " I am writing the name of God for the holiness of His name." If he made an error in writing God's name, he had to destroy the entire sheet of papyrus or vellum that he was using.

After the scribe finished copying a particular book, he would count all of the words and letters it contained. Then he checked this tally against the count for the manuscript that he was copying. He counted the number of times a particular word occurred in the book, and he noted the middle word and the middle letter in the book, comparing all of these with his original. By making these careful checks, he hoped to avoid any scribal errors.

This was done from generation to generation for thousands of years.

Christ said "Salvation is of the Jews". We need to refer to the ancient Jewish writings to "prove all things". The Bible was translated, not by the Jews but by English speaking men using English terminologies.

I Thessalonians 5:21

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

Another Answer:

There is truly no evidence that there are two 'Creation' accounts. This idea flourished in the 18-19th Century in the 'Age of Enlightenment' and is known as the Documentary Hypothesis (see link below). It is just another idea of men like the more modern 'Gap Theory' that states Genesis is a collection of 'genealogies' beginning with God's point of view, going onto Adams, etc. Even the wording in Genesis has 'this is the genealogy of...' which comes to the exact verses noted as the beginning and end of the two so-called accounts.

The Bible or more specifically Genesis speaks of the disbursement of the nations of mankind up to chapter 10. From chapter 11 forward, the Bible is more the history of the Congregation of Israel to the Church of God Jesus established where the next chapter begins in Revelation 21.