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They are one and the same. Many modern scholars are coming to the conclusion that there is only ONE Creation account in The Bible. They note several terms and other Book verses to support their reasoning. They also realize now that the 'point-of-view' changes as Genesis is a book of genealogies. Please note two here in the footnotes:
Genesis 1:1-2 New King James Version (NKJV) The History of Creation 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was[a]on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
Footnotes:
- Genesis 1:2 Words in italic type have been added for clarity. They are not found in the original Hebrew or Aramaic.
Genesis 2:4New King James Version (NKJV)
4 This is the history[a] of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,Footnotes:
- Genesis 2:4 Hebrew toledoth, literally generations
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 9y agoThe second creation account in Genesis (from Genesis 2:4b) is much older in Judaism, and more primitive than the first (Genesis 1:1-2:4a). It dates from early in the first millennium BCE, whereas the first creation account only dates from the Babylonian Exile, around 500 years later.
The fragments of a creation story that appear in the psalms and the Book of Job are probably even older than either account in Genesis, and were passed down orally to the Persian period.
For more information, please visit: http://christianity.answers.com/theology/the-story-of-creation
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∙ 9y agoNeither. According to tradition, there is only one Genesis creation-narrative, with ch.2 serving as an expansion of the brevity of ch.1, not a separate set of events (Rashi commentary, Gen.2:8). In ch.1, God created the universe from nothing (Exodus 20:11, Isaiah 40:28; Maimonides' "Guide," 2:30; Targum and Nachmanides on Gen. 1:1; Rashi commentary, Gen.1:14), and in ch.2, God performed specific acts within the broader picture.
The same literary devices which the Torah employs to enrich its text, have been used by Bible-critics in an attempt to reassign its authorship.
The Jewish sages, based on ancient tradition, identified many of these devices, which include:
recapping earlier brief passages to elucidate,
employing different names of God to signify His various attributes,
using apparent changes or redundancies to allude to additional unstated details,
speaking in the vernacular that was current during each era,
and many more. While Judaism has always seen the Torah as an intricate tapestry that nonetheless had one Divine source, some modern authors such as Wellhausen (the father of modern Biblical-criticism, 1844-1918) have suggested artificially chopping up the narrative and attributing it to various authors, despite the Torah's explicit statement as to its provenance (Exodus 24:12, Deuteronomy 31:24). This need not concern believers, since his claims have been debunked one by one, as Archaeology and other disciplines have demonstrated the integrity of the Torah. No fragments have ever been found that would support his Documentary Hypothesis, which remains nothing more than an arbitrary claim:
http://religion.answers.com/theory/debunking-the-jepd-documentary-hypothesis
http://www.apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=6&article=1131(a Christian author)
http://www.whoreallywrotethebible.com/excerpts/chapter4-1.php
http://www.pearlmancta.com/BiblicalcriticswrongRShlomoCohen.htm
And see also the wider picture:
http://judaism.answers.com/hebrew/does-archaeology-support-the-hebrew-bible
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Did isaac newton support the biblical account of creation?
True.
Did sir Isaac newton support biblical account of creation?
True.
Did sir isaac newton support the biblical account of creation?
True.
What did fundamentalists believe about the biblical account of creation?
They believe the story is a literal description of what happened.
When was Biblical Creation Society created?
Biblical Creation Society was created in 1977.
What longstanding view did Darwin challenge in his book Origin Of Species?
The biblical account of creation of earth and every living on it in 7 days by God, and especially the creation of man in the image of God.
Why do biblical scholars consider the second creation account older than the first account?
The second creation account, in Genesis 2:4bff, is written in a somewhat more archaic form of Judaism and has a rather more primitive cosmology than is case with the first creation account (Genesis 1:1-2:4a). It is attributed to the Yahwist Source, who wrote early in the first millennium BCE. The Priestly Source, to whom the first creation account is attributed, wrote much later, during or shortly after the Babylonian Exile.The Yahwist account follows on relatively seamlessly through the subsequent chapters of Genesis, so by adding the later account prior to the earlier one, the Priestly Source avoided breaking into the existing sequence of stories.
What are the release dates for Creation Today - 2011 What Is the Best Evidence for Biblical Creation 2-18?
Creation Today - 2011 What Is the Best Evidence for Biblical Creation 2-18 was released on: USA: 2012
What similarities are shared by the account of creation and the flood narratives?
AnswerThe biblical creation account and the biblical Flood story were both written by the same two authors: the Yahwist ('J' source) and the Priestly author ('P' source). However, in the creation account the Priestly story (Genesis 1:1-2:4a) is kept quite separate from the earlier Yahwist story (Genesis 2:4b-2:25), but in the Flood story, they are interwoven, thus making it less apparent that there are really two stories there.
Why is Evolution taken as fact rather than theory versus Biblical Creation?
evolution can be proven that is why it is a fact, The biblical creation is a belief and not proven.
Where did wood originate?
Wood originated from trees. Trees originated from God during creation, when all plant life was created. Trees were created on Day 3 in the Biblical creation account. See Genesis 1:11-13
Is the Bible the oldest written account of creation?
A:No. There are other, even older creation accounts that come from other religions. In particular, the Epic of Gilgamesh, written on twelve tablets, predates the Bible.
