Creation

There are Creation-stories all over the world; tens of them if not hundreds. This is because the Creation was a tradition going all the way back and shared by all mankind. As time passed, most of these stories became infiltrated by idolatry, with a phantasmagoria of warring deities. It is the Torah, in Genesis, which preserves the original.See also:

Is there evidence for Creation?

One. Gen 1:1-31 is the overall account of the entirety of creation. Gen 2:7-25 is the breakdown of the creation of man & woman on the 6th day. No different than novels & movies do when they give u the overall storyline & then break it down to explain. There's not 2 different accounts, period. In Gen 2:7 God forms man then in v8 God planted a garden called Eden then in v15 God took Adam & placed him in the garden. One account.

Answer:

There are two different creation stories in the Christian Bible:

• The first is Genesis 1:1-2:3
• The second is Genesis 2:4-25.

ANSWER EXPOUNDED:

As the last person posted, there were 2 creations of man. 1st man "adam", both male and female (adam = mankind, the word "man" was a bad English translation) and the 2nd man was "haadam".

FIRST CREATION

• "adam" the first man in Genesis 1:1-2:3

1:24 A command was given, "let the earth bring forth EVERY kind of living

creature."

1st Let the waters bring forth swarms of living creatures, also birds that fly, all the sea creatures that creep. this is the fifth day.

2nd Let the earth bring forth every living creature: cattle, creeping things of the land, and wild beasts of every kind.

3rd God said, Let us make man (adam) in our image, after our likeness . and the earth brought forth man and woman and this is the sixth day.

4th God made all manner of plant life for food. And this was the 6th day.

SECOND CREATION

• "haadam" the second man in Genesis 2:4-25 the LORD God FORMED

1st The LORD God formed "haadam" from the dust of the earth.

2nd God created the garden of Eden.

3rd God made a river to water the garden that branches off into 4 rivers.

4th God placed "haadam" in the garden to till and tend it. (no Eve yet - 1st

creation, "the earth brought forth" both "haadam" and woman

at the same time)

5th The LORD God formed out of the earth, wild beasts, birds that fly, and

man named them.

6th The LORD God formed woman (ishahah) from the rib and flesh taked

from Haadam. "This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my

flesh. This one shall be called Woman, for from man she was taken."

These are the two different creations stories, how they are written in the Torah (the 1st five book of the King James Bible) the Jewish Holy Bible which has been around far longer than our King James Bible, and agree that there were two creations. The punctuation, the "colon mark" is an errorin our KJB, causing the reader to understand that the story is expounded on the first accounted creation on the 6th day, but in the Jewish Bible, (which is equivalent to our Holy Bible) called the Tanakah and contains the same books, but carry the Hebrew names instead of the English names. "The Torah" (which consists of the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy) "The Nevi'im", which are the books of the 21 prophets and the book of the Kethuvim, "The Writings" of Psalms, Prov., Job, Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamat., Eccl., Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Neh., I & II Chronicles.

However, getting back to the story of the creations, in the Torah Genesis 2 which reads . .

"The heavens and the earth were finished, and all their array. 2 On the seventh day God finished the work that He had been doing, and He ceased on the seventh day from all the work that He had done. 3 And God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, because on it God ceased from all the work of creation that He had done. 4 Such is the story of heavens and earth when they were created.

When the LORD God made earth and heavens - 5 when no shrub of the field was yet on earth and no grasses of the field had yet sprouted, because the LORD God had not sent rain upon the earth and there was no man to till the soil, 6 but a flow would well up from the ground and watered the whole surface of the earth - 7 the LORD God formed man from the dust of the earth. He blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being."

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.

FYI

The first recorded instance of God's Word being written down, was when the Lord Himself wrote it down in the form of ten commandments on the stone tablets delivered to Moses at the top of Mount Sinai. Biblical scholars believe this occurred between 1,400 BC and 1,500 BC… almost 3,500 years ago. The language used was almost certainly an ancient form of Hebrew, the language of Old Covenant believers.

The earliest scripture is generally considered to be the "Pentateuch", the first five books of the Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, & Deuteronomy… though there is some scholarly evidence to indicate that the Old Testament Book of Job may actually be the oldest book in the Bible. The Old Testament scriptures were written in ancient Hebrew, a language substantially different than the Hebrew of today. These writings were passed down from generation to generation for thousands of years on scrolls made of animal skin, usually sheep, but sometimes deer or cow. Animals considered "unclean" by the Jews, such as pigs, were of course, never used to make scrolls.

When the entire Pentateuch is present on a scroll, it is called a "Torah". An entire Torah Scroll, if completely unraveled, is over 150 feet long! As most sheep are only about two to three feet long, it took an entire flock of sheep to make just one Torah scroll. The Jewish scribes who painstakingly produced each scroll were perfectionists. If they made even the slightest mistake in copying, such as allowing two letters of a word to touch, they destroyed that entire panel (the last three or four columns of text), and the panel before it, because it had touched the panel with a mistake! While most Christians today would consider this behavior fanatical and even idolatrous (worshiping the scripture, rather than the One who gave it to us), it nevertheless demonstrates the level of faithfulness to accuracy applied to the preservation of God's Word throughout the first couple of thousand years of Biblical transmission.

The ancient documents were meticulously copied from generation to generation as the scrolls were worn by use.

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.

Here are some arguments for Creation or against Evolution.

These point to Divine Creation:

• The staggering complexity of every organ and every cell in the human body.
• The vastness of our minds and emotions.
• The fact that the universe has definite design, order, and arrangement which cannot be sufficiently explained outside a theistic worldview. (This is how Abraham, without benefit of teachers, came to reject the chaotic world-view of idolatry and the possibility of atheism). For example, theoretical physicist and popular science writer Paul Davies (whose early writings were not especially sympathetic to theism) states concerning the fundamental structure of the universe, "the impression of design is overwhelming" (Davies, 1988, p. 203).

• The laws of the universe seem to have been set in such a way that stars, planets and life can exist. Many constants of nature appear to be finely tuned for this, and the odds against this happening by chance are astronomical.

• 1) The glaring lack of transitional fossils has been noted by the evolutionists themselves, such as this statement from the famous paleontologist and evolutionist George G. Simpson; quote: "The regular lack of transitional fossils is not confined to primates alone, but is an almost universal phenomenon."

• 2) Instances of falsifying of evidence by evolutionists, such as Haeckel's drawings, Archaeoraptor, the Cardiff "specimen," and Piltdown Man.

Dr. Jonathan Wells published a book in 2002 entitled Icons of Evolution. Dr. Wells states that the book shows that "the best-known 'evidences' for Darwin's theory have been exaggerated, distorted or even faked."

• 3) Creationists see the "survival of the fittest" and the dating of rock layers by fossils as being perfect tautologies.
• 4) The fact that some qualified, educated, normal scientists do not believe in evolution. Or at least question it, even if they still preach evolution: "Nine-tenths of the talk of evolutionists is sheer nonsense, not founded on observation and wholly unsupported by facts. This museum is full of proofs of the utter falsity of their views. In all this great museum, there is not a particle of evidence of the transmutation of species" (Dr. Etheridge, Paleontologist of the British Museum).

• 5) The fact that there is a shared, worldwide tradition among every ancient society that the world was created.
• 6) Evolving of new organs or species has not been witnessed during known history.
• 7) Mutations are harmful, not beneficial. One of the tasks of DNA and of long-term breeding is to avoid or repair any changes brought about by mutations. This means that our genetic apparatus is programmed to resist change.
• 8) Mutations, even if beneficial, do not create new organs.
• 9) The fact that a great number of fossils have been found in the "wrong" rock-layers according to what evolutionary paleontology would require.
• 10) The fact that you need DNA to make DNA. No genetic code can be demonstrated to have arisen by chance, together with the ability to read that code and carry out its instructions. Information does not arise spontaneously; and there is an incredible amount of information in even the tiniest cell.

"The astounding structural complexity of a cell" (U.S. National Library of Medicine).

Concerning a single structure within a cell: "Without the motor protein, the microtubules don't slide and the cilium simply stands rigid. Without nexin, the tubules will slide against each other until they completely move past each other and the cilium disintegrates. Without the tubulin, there are no microtubules and no motion. The cilium is irreducibly complex. Like a mousetrap, it has all the properties of design and none of the properties of natural selection" (Michael Behe, prof. of biophysics).

• 11) The problem of the impossibility of abiogenesis in general. "The concept of abiogenesis is not science. It's fantasy" (J.L. Wile, Ph.D.).
• 12) The fact that evolution was once used as support for the belief that Blacks (or others) are less than highly-evolved humans. "Darwin was also convinced that the Europeans were evolutionarily more advanced than the black races" (Steven Rose, author). He also "reasoned that males are more evolutionarily advanced than females" (B. Kevics, author).
• 13. The first and second laws of thermodynamics point clearly to a Creator, since things undergo entropy rather than get more orderly over time.

• a) At current rates of erosion the amount of sea-floor sediments actually found do not support a "billions of years" age for the Earth.
• b) The amount of Sodium Chloride in the sea, also, is a small fraction of what the "old Earth" theory would postulate.
• c) The Earth's magnetic field is decaying too fast to extrapolate a long age for the Earth.
• d) The rate of accumulation of Moon-dust has been measured; and the amount of dust on the Moon was found to be vastly less than what scientists had predicted before the Moon-landings.
• e) "Radiometric techniques may not be the absolute dating methods that they are claimed to be. Age-estimates on a given geological stratum by different radiometric methods are often very different. There is no absolutely reliable long-term radiological clock. The uncertainties inherent in radiometric dating are disturbing to geologists and evolutionists." William D. Stansfield, Ph.D., Instructor of Biology, California Polytechnic State University.
• f) "Even total rock systems may be open during metamorphism and may have their isotopic systems changed, making it impossible to determine their geologic age." Prof. Gunter Faure (Department of Geology, The Ohio State University, Columbus.)

• g) Helium is generated by radioactive elements as they decay. The escape of this helium into the atmosphere can be measured. According to the Evolutionary age of the Earth there should be much more helium in the atmosphere, instead of the 0.05% that is actually there. The only way around this is to assume that helium is escaping into space. But for this to happen, the helium atoms must be moving at above the escape velocity, of 24,200 miles per hour. The usual speed of helium atoms is only 5,630 mph. A few atoms travel much faster than the average, but still the amount of helium escaping into space is only about 1/40th the amount entering the atmosphere.

1) The first humans, Adam and Eve: God created them directly, as described in Genesis ch.1 and 2.

2) All humans since then:

The father and mother contribute living tissue (sperm cell and egg cell). God contributes the soul.

In both of the above cases, God grants free-will and special responsibility.

See also:

Is there evidence for Creation?

Can you show that God exists?

Seeing God's wisdom

Another View:

In the beginning there was an empty darkness. The only thing in this void was Nyx, a bird with black wings. With the wind she laid a golden egg and for ages she sat upon this egg. Finally life began to stir in the egg and out of it rose Eros, the god of love. One half of the shell rose into the air and became the sky and the other became the Earth. Eros named the sky Uranus and the Earth he named Gaia. Then Eros made them fall in love.

Uranus and Gaia had many children together and eventually they had grandchildren. Some of their children become afraid of the power of their children. Kronus, in an effort to protect himself, swallowed his children when they were still infants. However, his wife Rhea hid their youngest child. She gave him a rock wrapped in swaddling clothes, which he swallowed, thinking it was his son.

Once the child, Zeus, had reached manhood his mother instructed him on how to trick his father to give up his brothers and sisters. Once this was accomplished the children fought a mighty war against their father. After much fighting the younger generation won. With Zeus as their leader, they began to furnish Gaia with life and Uranus with stars.

Soon the Earth lacked only two things: man and animals. Zeus summoned his sons Prometheus (fore-thought) and Epimetheus (after-thought). He told them to go to Earth and create men and animals and give them each a gift.

Prometheus set to work forming men in the image of the gods and Epimetheus worked on the animals. As Epimetheus worked he gave each animal he created one of the gifts. After Epimetheus had completed his work Prometheus finally finished making men. However when he went to see what gift to give man Epimetheus shamefacedly informed him that he had foolishly used all the gifts.

Distressed, Prometheus decided he had to give man fire, even though gods were the only ones meant to have access to it. As the sun god rode out into the world the next morning Prometheus took some of the fire and brought it back to man. He taught his creation how to take care of it and then left them.

When Zeus discovered Prometheus' deed he became furious. He ordered his son to be chained to a mountain and for a vulture to peck out his liver every day till eternity. Then he began to devise a punishment for mankind. Another of his sons created a woman of great beauty, Pandora. Each of the gods gave her a gift. Zeus' present was curiosity and a box which he ordered her never to open. Then he presented her to Epimetheus as a wife.

Pandora's life with Epimetheus was happy except for her intense longing to open the box. She was convinced that because the gods and goddesses had showered so many glorious gifts upon her that this one would also be wonderful. One day when Epimetheus was gone she opened the box.

Out of the box flew all of the horrors which plague the world today - pain, sickness, envy, greed. Upon hearing Pandora's screams Epimetheus rushed home and fastened the lid shut, but all of the evils had already escaped.

Later that night they heard a voice coming from the box saying,

"Let me out. I am hope."

Pandora and Epimetheus released her and she flew out into the world to give hope to humankind.