Incongruities found in Genesis
September 16, 2022
Describe one of the incongruities found in Genesis that lead us to believe that it could not be the workof a single author (Moses)Lecture Notes THREETake a look at Genesis 1: 1?2:4a (in other words, start at ?In the beginning when God created?? and finish the first sentence of chapter 2: 4 ?These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created?. In your mind put a big THE END after that. If you read the very next sentence of verse 4 in chapter 2 ?In the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, when no plant of the field was yet in the earth? this is the beginning of a SECOND and different creation myth written by a different group of people. Even if you compare these two creation accounts you will see very different events; in the first, God creates in a series of days from a sort of ?hands off? approach, and the second God is like the master artist who has a garden and gets down into the mud to create. In the second he does not speak to create, he does in the first one, but actually ?works? to create. In the first account men and women are created simultaneously. In the second account man is created first, then woman and they are both given names (Adam
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