There are two different creation stories:
It is thought this is due to several different texts being put together to form the present Bible and Torah
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Scholars now realise that there were three main sources, or authors, for the Book of Genesis. There are two creation stories in Genesis because two different sources, the Yahwist and the Priestly Source each wrote his own story. The Yahwist wrote the second creation story (Genesis 2:4b-20) during the ninth century BCE, based on earlier Judahite traditions. The Priestly Source wrote what is now the first creation story (Genesis 1:!-2:4a) during the sixth-century-BCE Babylonian Exile, based on traditions he found among the Babylonians. It appears the Priestly Source was prevented from removing the earlier tradition or found it too difficult, since the Yahwist creation story more or less continues all the way to Noah. Instead, he simply added his own version at the beginning of Genesis.
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The Yahwist and Priestly sources are not from individual authors, most likely, but from different groups with different schools of thought in very different times (during the kingdom as opposed to exile, as noted in previous answer).
Also, these two sources, as well as the Elohist, the other source for Genesis, are woven together with the Deuternomist (D) source throughout the rest of the Pentateuch (Gen -Deut), with D being primarily in, and the primary source for, our book of Deuteronomy,
That being said, these sources are very, very often woven together without any real apparent concern for explaining inconsistent details
However, this does not disprove The Bible. My take is that we misread some of the Bible. This part, for instance, is not history of the world spoken word - for - word by God. Rather, ancient writers did not think about history the same way moderns do, with strict concern for preciseness. Rather, they were making theological claims about who God is over and against the claims of competing pagan religions in Canaan and Babylon
A:In the Old Testament, there are two creation stories in the Book of Genesis, at Genesis 1:1-2:4a and at Genesis 2:4b-25, plus fragments of a third and much more primitive creation story in Psalms and the Book of Job. There is no creation story in the New Testament.
Just as there are two quite different creation stories in Genesis, plus fragments of a third one in the Psalms and Job, so also are there several Chinese creation stories. This is especially true because China is so large and has so many different traditions, including Buddhism, Daoism and folk religions. With so many different stories, both in the Bible and Chinese belief, there is no simple answer to a simple question like this. Since God is a Semitic concept, God's creation stories are naturally different to the Chinese creation stories. Each creation story is true to its believers.
While there are some similarities among all creation stories, the differences between those from one region and a different region are quite remarkable. The closer two creation stories are in geographic origin, the more similarities you will find.Many early Near Eastern creation stories tell of the world and its people coming into existence through battles between the creator god and the chaos monsters. We see fragments of this genre in Psalms and the Book of Job.The second creation story in Genesis (Genesis 2:4b-20) can be typical of some creation stories from inland, arid regions - there is no mention of the ocean, and plants grew because God had yet to make it rain. This story contains moral themes, a frequent theme of some early creation stories.The first creation story in Genesis (Genesis 1:1-2:4a) is very different from the story in chapter 2. Perhaps the most obvious thing in common between these two stories is the absence of chaos monsters in the narrative. The first creation story is much less like a folk story than is the second one, understandable as it was written in the form we know today by the Priestly Source, who was concerned with theology and the role of the priestly class in Jewish society. The differences are considerable, both in sequence and style. The creation story in Genesis chapter 1 is typical of cultures familiar with the oceans and great rivers. In this first story, God has almost unlimited power and causes things to exist merely by speaking them into existence. In the second story, God needs dirt to model and create Adam, then a rib to create Eve - examples of his more limited powers.Both creation stories in Genesis came from earlier creation stories in Mesopotamia, and reflect similarities to the earlier stories. The imagery of the chaos monsters found in Pslams and the Book of Job, although fragmentary, can also be found in earlier creation stories in the Near East.Answer:Because Creation is a worldwide tradition shared by all ancient societies. Because it actually took place.
There are two distinctly different stories of creation in the Book of Genesis - at Genesis 1:!-2:4a and Genesis 2:4b-25. The Garden of Eden is the main setting for the second creation story.For more information, please visit: http://christianity.answers.com/theology/the-story-of-creation
The first story of creation in Genesis emphasizes the order and goodness of God's creation, culminating in the creation of humans in His own image. The second story focuses more on the intimate relationship between humans and God, highlighting the idea of companionship and responsibility in caring for the earth. Both stories convey the importance of recognizing God as the creator of all things and the need for humans to steward the earth with reverence and gratitude.
The Bible begins with the book of Genesis and it is there that the two Creation stories can be found.
There are two complete and quite different creation stories in Genesis - the first in Genesis 1:1-2:4a, the second in Genesis 2:4b-2:25. There are fragments of a third, now incomplete creation story in Psalms and Job.
Many peoples have creation-narratives, because it is a universal tradition. The account of the Creation in the Hebrew Bible is in the first passages of Genesis. See also:A summary of the Creation-narrative
Genesis 1-2
Genesis contains two quite different creation stories, Genesis 1:1-2:4a and Genesis 2:4b-2:25, although most believers learn to harmonise their content and regard them as somehow the same story. In addition, Psalms and Job contain fragments of a more primitive Hebrew creation story.
There are two separate stories of creation in the Book of Genesis. The first is at Genesis 1:1-24a (the first sentence of verse 2:4), while the second is at Genesis 2:4b-2:25.The main points of the biblical creation stories were to explain why we are here and where we came from. Although in many ways very different and even contradictory, the two stories have some things in common.God did not create the earth itself - this was pre-existent.God created all living things.God created man.For more information, please visit: http://christianity.answers.com/theology/the-story-of-creation
He was inspired by stories from the Genesis on the Sistine ceiling. The creation of Adam is one of those.
A:In the Old Testament, there are two creation stories in the Book of Genesis, at Genesis 1:1-2:4a and at Genesis 2:4b-25, plus fragments of a third and much more primitive creation story in Psalms and the Book of Job. There is no creation story in the New Testament.
There are two creation accounts, in two chapters of Genesis. There are also fragments of a third creation in Psalms and Job. The first creation account is in Genesis chapter 1, continuing to Genesis 2:4a (the first sentence in verse 4).The second creation account is in Genesis chapter 2, beginning at verse 4b.
AnswerThe two creation stories in Genesis chapters 1 and two have God alone creating the world. The only exception is in the first creation story, where God said, "Let us make man in our image" (Genesis 1:26), implying that someone else was already present.John 1:1-2 harmonises well with Genesis 1:26, as it says that in the beginning, the Word (Jesus) was with God.
The Books of Genesis tells different stories and are of that reason different. However they do both contain creation material.Genesis contains two complete creation stories, at Genesis 1:1-2:4a and 2:4b-2:20. Some scholars think of Genesis chapter 5 as possibly a third creation story.Job contains fragments of a much more primitive creation story, especially in chapter 38ff, where God querulously asked Job where he was when God created the world and if he is so righteous that he could do any of the things that God had done. Here we see suggestions of how at the time of creation God had to fight the chaos monsters, for example the behemoth and the leviathan. Chaos monsters were once closely associated with many creation stories of the Near East.Jewish answer:The books of Genesis and Job are two different things. Genesis recounts the events of the Creation, the Flood, and the lives of the righteous, from Abraham through Joseph.Job is a poetic prophecy concerning the question of the suffering of the righteous.
Some people would argue that creation is the theme for Genesis. They forget that Genesis houses the stories of the first people on the earth and the expansion of the human race.