RBrower Genesis Conflicts
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Creation Conflicts In Genesis (Table 10 from Rick Brower, The Enigma of Creation) | |
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Genesis 1-2:4a | Genesis 2:4b-3:24 |
Creation is divided into days. | No days or other periods of time are mentioned. |
Creation has a cosmic scope. | Creation has to do with the earth only. |
Animals are created before man. | Man created before animals. |
Animals are part of a cosmic design (along with plants and everything else) | Animals are created for a limited purpose: to keep man company or be "a helper" — though they turn out to be unsuitable for Adam, forcing God to make Eve instead. |
Man is to rule the world. | Man is to have charge of Eden only and, presumably, is never to leave it. |
Woman is created simultaneously with man. | Woman is created after (and from) the body of man. |
No names are given to creatures. | All creatures, including man and woman, are given names. |
Only the deity speaks. | Four speakers engage in dialogue, one of them an animal. |
The fruit of every tree is given for food. | The deity forbids eating the fruit of a tree. |
Man and woman have dominion over all living creatures, including those in the sea. | Man does not interact with living creatures of the sea, nor does he name them. |
All the water over the surface of the entire earth is gathered into one place. | A river flows out of Eden and divides into four. |