There is so much talk and debate about Christianity and the Bible. I have decided to start a lofty project to point out Biblical issues from the beginning (Genesis) to the end (Revelations). If you disagree with or have an explanation for the things I point out, please comment. The Bible I will be quoting from is a King James version published by Thomas Nelson, Inc. and copyrighted in 1984. It is a very standard, widely used and available version of the Bible, which is precisely why I chose it.
There are two major books of the Bible: The Old Testament (comprised 19 minor books) and the New Testament (comprised of 28 minor books) for a grand total of 47 books. Of course the number of Biblical books have changed since its creation but this is the current count.
Genesis - The 1st minor book of the Old Testament. Genesis describes the beginning of the creation by God of everything from nothing, the creation of man and woman, Heaven & Earth and the lives of the first man & woman (Adam & Eve) and their offspring.
Genesis Issue 1: There appears to be two separate Gods creating two different men, by two different means on two different days.
-on the 1st day of creation (Genesis: 1, 1-5) God created heaven & earth.
-on the 6th day of creation (Genesis: 1, 24-31) God created all the living animals, insects, plants and the first man & woman in his own image. The text reads (Genesis: 1, 26-28): And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it....
-on the 7th day of creation (Genesis: 2, 2) God rested and blessed the day.
-Genesis: 2, 4-25 then introduces the Lord God (a term that had not been used up until this point in the text) and describes that he was creating a man on the first day of creation - not the sixth. It reads: These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth, when they were created (1st day), in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, (Genesis:2, 7 continues) And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. And the Lord God planted a Garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
Apparently, the Lord God created a man alone (no woman) from the dust of the earth, breathed a soul into him, built a dwelling for him (Garden in Eden) and placed him there, on the first day of creation while God was busy completing the Earth. God didn't get around to making a human being until the 6th day of creation and when he did, he created both a man and a woman at the same time and not of the dust but rather, in his own image. As well, God apparently didn't place his humans in a garden - he simply gave them dominion over everything on the earth and instructed them to subdue it. It also appears that both God and the Lord God are given credit for creating the heavens and earth as well.
This is the first issue I have with Genesis. Actually; it's the second but this is the first I'd like to discuss. I'm sure there are some Biblical scholars or true Christians out there who have an explanation for this and I would really like to hear it.
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