Genesis Chapter 2 Discussion Page 32

Can someone explain these two scriptures?
#1 Genesis 1:26-28 " Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness."
Verse27 “He created male and female".
Genesis 2 "Formed man out of dust of the ground and breathed in his nostrils the breath of life," Verse 22 "Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from the man He made into a woman and he brought her to the man.

Where is Havilah?

When we read the word of God, we accept it as truth, and let the Holy Spirit guide us. He will give us revelation of his word: I find as when I read, I can find ways to doubt; but when I decide to trust, he makes it clear through study; or somebody will have the answer to my questions.

@Chris, it may seem that God created man twice but in reality the second mention of creation is a recap or retelling with details not mentioned the first time! I hope that helped?

Did it not rain on the earth until the days of judgment Noah, at the flood?

@Arthur,
One can only replace when the first was taken away. Likewise one can replace the oldest with the least, as far as the least gets born after the eldest has passed away.
And we should know that the Bible is not a like a census book where every single person must be listed. Bible is the word of God, and God spoke His word the way it can profit the believers, not necessarily the way we like it to be. With that God only lists those hold the thread, those that are pertinent to His word. There many (majority) who are not indicated, because they did not significantly impact there generation. There are people that God purposely removed from the genealogy of Jesus Christ, because of their worse behavior.
So let’s take the word with simplicity of heart, and singleness of mind.
God bless you

@Andre
I get that but I still don't get Cain being the first born and Seth being Abel's replacement. For both to be true Cain would have had to been over 100 when he killed Abel or else it took several generations for Abel’s Replacement to come.

@Arthur,
Genesis 4 is the only section of the Bible that tells the story of Cain (and Abel), though they are also mentioned in few other sections of the Bible. And one section is not enough to tell one’s whole life.
Yet the Bible says that Adam and Eve had two sons; Cain and Abel. Cain was land tiller and Abel sheep keeper. They both offered sacrifices of their fruits and God pleased only with Abel’s and was displeased with Cain’s; which caused Cain to get wroth with Abel, and ultimately slew him.
Genesis 4:
‘’11 And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand;
12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.’’
A fugitive and vagabond shalt thou be, which means he would have no fixed settlement, he would move from place to place, he could be seen at a certain time and disappear again.
Verse 14 says ’’Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth;’’ Now, was Cain really driven from the face of the earth? The earth is figurative of man’s community. Cain lost harmony with the community.
Verse 16 says ‘’And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.’’ But could Cain really depart from the presence of the LORD ? No. this simply means Cain lost fellowship with GOD; otherwise he was still in face of the LORD.
Verse 17: ‘’And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived,..’’ Now what may be the space of time between verses 16 and 17? It certainly took many years during which Adam and Eve were having other sons and daughters and Cain was coming and going as vagabond. It is in the course of this time that he got one of his siters for wife.
Genesis 5:4 ‘’And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:’’

A few comments on questions I've seen. In the original Jewish Torah from which the first five books of the Bible come. Genesis 2:18 says God "had created" the animals. They were created before and He was just now bringing them to Adam. As for the comment that there had to be other people besides Adam that God created because Cain mated with one of them in 4:17, that was after he had killed Abel which had to be not too long before Seth was born because in 4:25 Seth is called a replacement for Abel. Seth was born 130 years after Creation, plenty of time for Adam and Eve to have had lots of children and for those children to have children and for those grandchildren to have children etc. etc God giving man dominion over the animals didn't make man the top of the food chain. Man didn't get permission to eat meat until after the Flood ( Genesis 9:3) Now a question. Was Cain the first child born to Adam and Eve? If he was then he would have been almost 130 years old when he killed Abel and I'd always thought of them being young when that happened. And would he really be just getting around to taking a wife at that advanced age?

God changes not nor alter the thing that came out of His mouth.

I had so many thoughts on the matter. I believe in God and scientific facts. I believe you can’t ignore facts that are in front of you, nor God the creator. I believe that man and woman was created before Adam and Eve and if this is so then the facts are correct about the cavemen days and the destruction to an end. But if I’m wrong then I am still confused by this chapter, and why would God create man then later says he created Adam and gave it life which I believe is spirit. I hope GOD would let me know but I’m sure he will let me know in his time.

Genesis 2 had summarized the essence of our entity (human being) to make the world a peaceful and loving place for everyone. May we have the grace to serve the Lord as detailed in the book. In Jesus name.

@Andre'
The word CREATE was not used here.
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.
God Bless You with understanding!

ALL I CAN SAY IS WOW, GOD IS SO BIG, SO ALL KNOWING, GOD HAS US IN HIS HAND. AS I WAS READING CHAPTERS 1-2 OF GENESIS, I WOULD GO BACK JUST TO READ IT AGAIN. SO LOVING THAT HE MADE THIS WORLD. AND TO TOP IT OFF WITH MUCH MUCH LOVE, HE GAVE US JESUS. GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU.

@Mike,
Sections of the bible may apparently contradict each other, yet in fact, they will complete each other.
But once we apply much alacrity to such sections, with the help of the holy spirit, all apparent contradictions will disappear leaving clearer perception than ever.
Let’s foster toward greater understanding of the word of GOD.
God bless you.

Has it not occurred to the literalists that these two accounts contradict each other and no amount of explanation and sophistry can overcome that basic problem?

I THANK GOD FOR OUR PASTOR BECAUSE HE'S A GENESIS PREACHER AND AS HE SAY SO OFTEN IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE GENESIS YOU CAN DO AWAY WITH THE WHOLE BIBLE!AND IF YOU HAPPEN TO GET OFF TRACK EVERYTHING YOU NEED IS IN THE FRIST TWO CHAPTERS.... (GENESIS) GOD BLESS YOU.

The supreme being God almighty finished creation on his master sheet, the designing of things etc day after day in Genesis chapter 1, then waits for the actualization of his master plan from chapter 2. There is a phase called lag phase where things have been planted and finished before you can behold it visibly that chapter 2 is an account of what has been finished in chapter 1. Thus when God created man on day 6, he created male and female spirits, then he united them to walk side by side, by forming Eve from Adam. Chapter 2 is project actualization phase although the creation design has been finished! He does not start anything until it is finished actually.

HI, I just wanted to encourage you to stay faithful to Gods house and shareing His word, every chance. God opens the door as well you keep up the good work for our Lord and he will bless you far more than you could ever immagine. Much love in Christ Jesus. have a glorious day everyone.

It's just like the rest of the Bible, it's wonderful.

@Kerry,
In fact GOD created man on the sixth day in Genesis 1, and Genesis 2, GOD is only giving details on man’s creation, it is not another phase.
As you may notice, the verb create is only used twice in Genesis 2 (verses 3,4), and both to recall what GOD did in Genesis 1.
Genesis 2 just explains Genesis 1.
GOD bless you.

On the sixth day our HEAVENLY FATHER created man, both male and female. Which day was Adam created?

I believe that it shows a great dishonor to our Heavenly Father when a person cannot take the time to capitalize His name. etc, God, He, Him. Any word describing the LORD,Lord, or His Son must be capatilized, or you are talking about false gods.

I think that he did a very good job at what he has done and getting me where I'm at now so I really thank him for that a repaying him I will do what I'm told and read the bible everyday

It reveals how important God has made man in his program on the earth. It confirms that God never creats without a need. He created the heavens & the earth 4 his glory. God put man in the garden to dress it. A man that receives the appropriate wife provokes divine help. The earth was lifeless until man showed up. God & man an unbeatable combination.

you cannot have a 24 hour day before the sun was created. The sun was created on the 4th day but not illuminated until the six days of creation was completed. In verse 4 God divided the light from the darkness differently then verse 14. In verse 2 the earth was in total darkness called night. when god said let there be light, the light covered the whole earth and extended outward into space. If you had a spaceship back then you could have traveled upward to where it was dark just like we can today. In verse 14 he set the sun in that darkness 93,000,000 miles from eath until creation was finished. When he illuminated the sun, the sunlight divided the light from the darkness like in verse 4, creating light on the side of the earth facing the sun the backside remained dark. when the rotated on its axis creating the 24 hour day and night.

First we have to start from the bigning, i.e Genesis says "day one ", "day two".... In addition, one day have two parts,i.e the light & the dark. So don't worry about the hours. The seventh day is sunday.

The book of Genesis chapter two clearly tell us without doubt God rested on the seventh day-This is one of God's command that six days after work we shall all rest Exodus 20.It is very clear in the book of Mathew that when Mary Magdaline and other ladies went to visit the tomb they went on sunday morning after the sabbath which means the sabbath was on Saturday when the Lord rested.

one of the things that confusing the world right now is on which day god is the seventh day in this world of ours, some says sunday is the seventh day and people rest on this day as god did after creation of the world and host.
some says it is saturday, because jesus died on the sixth day and ressurected on the the first day of the week. then he rest in the grave on the seventh day, which day is the biblical seventh day?.

the bible we all need to read and live the best we can .( look around and can you make thing out of nothing .( GOD CAN AND HE DID ).