Where in Gensis of the Bible do we find the two creation stories?
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In the beginning...  Ha.  Start in chapter one.  I am curious to know, though, what 'two' stories you are referring to.
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OK, according to the Bible, the creation of the heavens and the earth was "the beginning". So, we don't know what God was up to before that time (and in most views, this is irrelevant because God is 'timeless').\nWe are given no explanation of where God came from, it is simply assumed that God always has been (no matter what belief system, Evolution, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hindu, or any other, there comes a point where you simply have to say "I don't know where it/He/we came from").\nBack to the Bible ... Since 'the begining' is the creation of heavens and earth, NOTHING (other than God) existed before that time. God then began a process of 'forming' and 'filling' His creation. This process took Him six days. On day one, He created light and separated it from the darkness, calling it one day. This was the forming of the heavens (space/time).\nOn day two, He formed the atmosphere by separating the waters above from the waters beneath.\nOn day three, He begins to fill what He has formed, starting with the earth, separating the water from the land, and filling the land with growing things (plants).\nOn day four, He fills the heavens (above the atmosphere) with the sun, moon, and stars (probably the angels were created on this day as well).\nOn day five, He fills the water with fish (and other water-dwelling creatures), and the firmament (atomosphere) with birds (and other flying creatures)\nOn day six, He filled the land with all land-dwellers and created man in His own image to rule over the earth as the Vice-regent of God. \nOn day Seven, God rested from (stopped) the work of creation.\nNow, Genesis chapter 2 is often mis-understood to be a contradiction of Genesis 1 because of some differences in the order of creation, and some added details, so I will try to give a little understanding to this. Have you aver read a newspaper headline? Gen. 1 is the 'headline' and the main article is in Gen. 2. This is a detailed account of what happened on day 6, where God made a garden, placed the man in the garden, and then created one of each 'kind' of creation right before his eyes so the man could name them and rule them in equity. Then God created the woman to be with the man (by this time, Adam knew he needed a mate too!)\nIn the garden Adam and Eve had only ONE restriction - They were free to do ANYTHING they wanted to do with the exception of eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. They were clearly told the penalty of this would be death.\nIn spite of this knowledge, they both ate of the tree, and as a result, death entered the world, and the perfect creation of God was ruined. Instead of killing Adam and Eve though, God provided a 'loophole' in the law, and an animal (probably a lamb) was killed instead. In this way Adam and Eve saw the result of their sin brought death into the world, but God spared their lives for the time. By clothing them in the skins of the animal killed in their stead, God was giving them a constant reminder of the result of sin, and reminding them that He accepted them through the substitution of the animal killed in their place.\nThen God makes an extraordinary promise (Gen. 3:15) That the seed of the woman would crush the head of the serpent who deceived her.\n\nWe now skip ahead to a time when evil has grown on the earth to the point God can no longer stand it (Gen. 6), and men have stopped caring whether or not they are in right standing with God, forsaking the sacrifice, and offending God in all their thoughts and deeds (possibly because even though Adam lived to the age of 930 years, he eventually did die). \nBut there is one man (Adam's great, great, great, great, great, great, granson) who is still seeking God, and observing the sacrifice for atonement of sin. This man's name was Noah, and God judged the entire world with a flood, but spared Noah and his family (as well as each k
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aliens in the bible article\nhttp://www.angelfire.com/ca/Message/aliens.html
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I dont see why someone cant believe in both perhaps there were people walking the earth before "God" created "adam and eve" we finally evolved to a stage where he could step in and say this is wrong this is right. We know from DNA there was more then one male some men dont have the dna that leads back to one male human. Woohoo discovery channel.
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So far I have found no reference in the Bible to the age of the earth or indeed the universe.\n\nTo iMi: I agree that looking at ages in the genealogies would indicate approximately 6000 years of history.\n\nHowever, the Hebrew word that is translated as "created" in Genesis 1:1 generally applies perfection, orderliness, completeness, etc. In Genesis 1:2 everything is in chaos. How much time elapsed between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2? I think there is any way for us to know.
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Ever read Genesis 1-3?** \n\n1. Genesis 1-26"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."\n.....\nGenesis 1-28And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. \n\n\never think it is odd how true this is even today? How did they know that there was not some thing more "evoled" then them on the Earth?\n\n2.  Genesis 1-27"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. "\nWhe did God not tell us we "evolved"? is his word not true? \n\n3. Genesis 1-11 "And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so."\n\n"...and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself" Why did God tell us this? We know this to be true anyone can just look as see this. Do you think God may have put it this way for us today?  This done not tell us that God will make a fruit tree in to a pine tree overtime.\n\n4.God is the God of DNA.... if God mad DNA why not reuse some of the same DNA? This dose mean that we "evolved" \n\n5. Why can the people who say we "evolved" not find ALL the bones to back it up? If ech. step was 10,000,000+- or so should we not be diging up bones all over?
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The correct answer IS no one.  However, I understand where your confusion comes from.  In Genesis 1 we read an overview of the entire creation.  In verse 27 we see that God created man and woman, but are not given any names.  However, this doesn’t mean that they are not Adam and Eve.  The end of chapter 1 concludes the brief account, or summary if you will, of creation, and chapter 2 then elaborates on some important details.  These include how God created man and woman and their names.  Chapter 2 verse 7 describes the creation of Adam, but we know that it is an elaboration on the creation of man given in 1:27, because in 2:5 it specifically says that there was no man on the earth.  \n\nHope that clears it up a little.\n\n_______________  EDIT _______________\n\nTo James,\n\nI'm afraid you are mistaken about the meaning of the word "man" as it applies to Genesis 1 and 2.  I encourage you to look at the original Hebrew words as it makes it clearer that both chapters refer to the same "man".  It is understandable that some confusion is introduced when translating into English, so it is helpful to look at the original words to determine their meaning both individually and in the context of the surrounding scripture.  For example, the word for "man" is the exact same Hebrew word in both chapter 1 and 2, AND it is essentially the same word as the man's name! ADAM!  And it is a form that is used much more often as a singular form, while a different word (Alef + Yod + Shin) is used more often to indicate MEN - plural.  The word in Genesis 1 & 2 in Hebrew is Alef + Dalet + Mem.  \n\nCheck it our more for yourself -- you'll be surprised how consistent it is with the rest of the Bible's idea that Adam WAS the first man!
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GE 1:3-5 On the first day, God created light, then separated light and darkness.\nGE 1:14-19 The sun (which separates night and day) wasn't created until the fourth day.\n\nGE 1:11-12, 26-27 Trees were created before man was created.\nGE 2:4-9 Man was created before trees were created.\n\nGE 1:20-21, 26-27 Birds were created before man was created.\nGE 2:7, 19 Man was created before birds were created.\n\nGE 1:24-27 Animals were created before man was created.\nGE 2:7, 19 Man was created before animals were created.\n\nGE 1:26-27 Man and woman were created at the same time.\nGE 2:7, 21-22 Man was created first, woman sometime later.\n\nGE 1:28 God encourages reproduction.\nLE 12:1-8 God requires purification rites following childbirth which, in effect, makes childbirth a sin. (Note: The period for purification following the birth of a daughter is twice that for a son.)\n\nGE 1:31 God was pleased with his creation.\nGE 6:5-6 God was not pleased with his creation.\n(Note: That God should be displeased is inconsistent with the concept of omniscience.)\n\nGE 2:4, 4:26, 12:8, 22:14-16, 26:25 God was already known as "the Lord" (Jahveh or Jehovah) much earlier than the time of Moses.\nEX 6:2-3 God was first known as "the Lord" (Jahveh or Jehovah) at the time of the Egyptian Bondage, during the life of Moses.\n\nGE 2:17 Adam was to die the very day that he ate the forbidden fruit.\nGE 5:5 Adam lived 930 years.\n\nGE 2:15-17, 3:4-6 It is wrong to want to be able to tell good from evil.\nHE 5:13-14 It is immature to be unable to tell good from evil.\n\nGE 4:4-5 God prefers Abel's offering and has no regard for Cain's.\n2CH 19:7, AC 10:34, RO 2:11 God shows no partiality. He treats all alike.\n\nGE 4:9 God asks Cain where his brother Able is.\nPR 15:3, JE 16:17, 23:24-25, HE 4:13 God is everywhere. He sees everything. Nothing is hidden from his view.\n\nGE 4:15, DT 32:19-27, IS 34:8 God is a vengeful god.\nEX 15:3, IS 42:13, HE 12:29 God is a warrior. God is a consuming fire.\nEX 20:5, 34:14, DT 4:24, 5:9, 6:15, 29:20, 32:21 God is a jealous god.\nLE 26:7-8, NU 31:17-18, DT 20:16-17, JS 10:40, JG 14:19, EZ 9:5-7 The Spirit of God is (sometimes) murder and killing.\nNU 25:3-4, DT 6:15, 9:7-8, 29:20, 32:21, PS 7:11, 78:49, JE 4:8, 17:4, 32:30-31, ZP 2:2 God is angry. His anger is sometimes fierce.\n2SA 22:7-8 (KJV) "I called to the Lord; ... he heard my voice; ... The earth trembled and quaked, ... because he was angry. Smoke came from his nostrils. Consuming fire came from his mouth, burning coals blazed out of it."\nEZ 6:12, NA 1:2, 6 God is jealous and furious. He reserves wrath for, and takes revenge on, his enemies. "... who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? His fury is poured out like fire, and rocks are thrown down by him."\n2CO 13:11, 14, 1JN 4:8, 16 God is love.\nGA 5:22-23 The fruit of the Spirit of God is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.\n\nGE 4:16 Cain went away (or out) from the presence of the Lord.\nJE 23:23-24 A man cannot hide from God. God fills heaven and earth.\n\nGE 6:4 There were Nephilim (giants) before the Flood.\nGE 7:21 All creatures other than Noah and his clan were annihilated by the Flood.\nNU 13:33 There were Nephilim after the Flood.\n\nGE 6:6. EX 32:14, NU 14:20, 1SA 15:35, 2SA 24:16 God does change his mind.\nNU 23:19-20, 1SA 15:29, JA 1:17 God does not change his mind.\n\nGE 6:19-22, 7:8-9, 7:14-16 Two of each kind are to be taken, and are taken, aboard Noah's Ark.\nGE 7:2-5 Seven pairs of some kinds are to be taken (and are taken) aboard the Ark.\n\nGE 7:1 Noah was righteous.\nJB 1:1,8, JB 2:3 Job was righteous.\nLK 1:6 Zechariah and Elizabeth were righteous.\nJA 5:16 Some men are righteous, (which makes their prayers effective).\n1JN 3:6-9 Christians become righteous (or else they are not really Christians).\nRO 3:10, 3:23, 1JN 1:8-10 No one was or is righteous.\n\nGE 7:7 Noah and his clan ent
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This is a very good question indeed. Well, according to my source, which is the King James Version of the Holy Bible, (I choose this version because most people are familiar with it). There were man before Adam and Eve, the two of them were only the first of their own kind or tribe, as well as being the first servants of God. Genesis Chapter 1 versus 26-28 read: (*my own emphasis are added to the text)\n\n26 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.\n\n27 So God created man in his OWN* image, in the image of God created he him; MALE* and FEMALE* created he them.\n\n28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.\n\nSo here in the Bible tells of creation of man and woman. THIS man and woman were created simultaneously, not one then the other.  AND this man and woman or race of men and women were on the earth and had habitated the Earth as instructed by God, long before the creation of Adam and Eve. This is where in the Bible we find the story of the original people. The one's whom were given the dominion of the land as a gift of God. HOW do we know that these were not the same as Adam and Eve? That is told in verse 29 which reads:\n\n29 And God said,"See, I have given you EVERY* herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and EVERY* tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food.\n\nTo these first inhabitants of the Earth, there was no forbidden fruit, as there was for Adam and Eve. The first people were given full dominion and full reign and EVERY tree as food.  As we see in this, King James Version of the Holy Bible, Adam and Eve came along later, long after the seventh day of creation. And also we see that they were a creation of the Lord God, who created them to be servants in the garden, because "there was no man to till the ground" (GEN 2:5). Genesis Chapter 2 tells of the creation of Adam:\n\n7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into him the breath of life; and the man became a living being.\n\nThen the Lord God gave Adam his rules:\n\n15 Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden *TO TEND AND KEEP IT*. \n\n16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;\n\n17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."\n\nThen Lord God noticed Adam was lonely:\n\n18 And the LORD God said, "It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him."\n\nThen Eve was created:\n\n21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.\n22 Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.\n\nAnd they were good until the "serpent" went and pointed out to them that they were the only ones in the garden who couldn't eat from every tree... and as they say, the rest was history.
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This is an interesting subject. First of all I do belive in God&Creationalism, but however Im not very religous.Before God created Adam and Eve there must have been life on Earth.\nPerhaps God chose the Earth to put Man on because it was a very viable place to live. In Genisis chapter one it is written "In the begining God created the heavens and the Earth, and the Earth was VOID and WHITHOUT form" "Then the Spirit of the Lord moved apon the face of the deep... Its hard to say really, but in my opinion this is similar to the way science sugests that it all began, on a barren rocky world filled with an endless sea with which life could proliferate. There is evidence on the surface of the Earth that sugests that massive impacts from space have occured. Perhaps before the time of Man, the Earth was filled with Dinosaurs and 'quote' other prehistoric life and it was a great place for LIFE. Then one day for a reason known only to God, he chose to destroy the Earth with an asteroid so massive that it compleatly decimated everything, and left the planet, dark, void, and without proper form. The neanderthal men, in my opinion are evidence of somthing else mentioned in the Bible. In Genisis chapter six it says "the sons of God saw the beatiful women of the human race, and took any they wanted as there wives...in those days and even after GIANTS lived on the Earth" .The sons of God probly refers to angelic beings. Neanderthals were supposed to be much larger, and more robust then regular  humans of today. I think I have seen a few shows on the Discovery channle about human evolution, and acording to science, neanderthals, and humans most likely lived side by side. Then for reasons unknown, there was only MAN left as if the neanderthal died out. What about the great Mammoths, Sloths, Sabertoothed Cats, among other animals? I think that they, and the neanderthals were not included on NOAHS ARK. There is so much information to think about! Even so, there is still a lot of mystery. I do know one thing, all the PERFECT laws of the universe, from GRAVITY to MAGNATISIM, to PHYSICS just prove that that the universe was created intelligently, and beatifully might I ad. Sorry to type so much I have wandered about these issues too. Please remember that I was just speaking hypotheticaly on the what ifs. Hope I helped a little.
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Here's one link.  There are others just type in children's Bible stories on the search engine.\nhttp://www.jesusanswers.com/christian/stories/creation.htm
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People have been looking for that for 2000 years or more. Nothing has been found.\n\nGeological and archeological evidence shows there WAS a big flood in the middle east, south of the Black Sea, some time between human installation and the beginning of recorded history, but nothing as world destroying as described in the bible.
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If your serious?. There is a place in genisis that tells of the sons of god being with the daughters of man and creating a race of giants... but for the most part i dont think they reproduce.
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If you believe and read the Holy Bible then you can know the truth that man was created on the sixth day.\n\nThese are the verses from the Holy Bible which mention the details of the sixth day during the Almighty Eternal Gods creation\nThe Book of Genesis chapter 1 verses 24 to 31\n\n24And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. \n\n 25And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. \n\n 26And 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. \n\n 27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. \n\n 28And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. \n\n 29And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. \n\n 30And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. \n\n 31And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.\n\nHope God will show you the truth when you ask him yourself from whereever you are.
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They don't. The Bible was written a few million years after the disappearance of the dinosaurs by people who did not have a clue about them. The Genesis book was inspired by the Babylolian's myths of Creation. Every old civilization had its own myth of Creation. We now have mathematicians, astrophysicists, biologists, etc. to inquire these fundamental questions : «What is the history of the universe? How did life began and evolved on Earth or - maybe - elsewhere ?» Etc.
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Yes, the story of the dinosaurs is told by the Life Carriers, the higher beings intrusted with life development on new spheres.\n\nhttp://www.urantia.org/papers/toc.html\n\nIn our universe the administration of these affairs is overseen by Christ, the Creator Son of God who founded our universe. If you read the New Testament carefully, you will see that Christ created our universe: Hebrews Ch 1, vs 2-3, and other places. Gabriel, the highest and first created being in our universe, The Bright Morning Star, is the Chief Executive and right hand to Christ.  He is assisted by the Melchizedeks, one of whom taught Abraham:  Hebrews, Chapter 7 (Machiventa Melchizedek, no earthly parents).\n\nMortals are not created perfect, rather they are created with the capacity to evolve to perfection.  \n\nBoth planets and universes can evolve to ages of Light and Life, when few people die from crime, war, disasters, and aging.  Rather, most are translated to the next higher sphere for which they have qualified.\n\nAt the Center of the Total Reality there is one pattern universe containing one billion perfect and diverse worlds.\n\nBut the surrounding superuniverses (seven of them) are intended to evolve to perfection.  Each superuniverse is administered by three Ancients of Days, the oldest beings of historical record with respect to the time and space creations.  They are not ascendant mortals, rather were here long before any of the lowest planets were started.  \n\nThe Ancients of Days are of a type called Supreme Trinity Origin beings, flawless, and having authority with respect to the superuniverse like the Supreme Court has with respect to the USA.  However, they act as administrators more than judges, and have a huge staff to assist the execution of superuniverse affairs.  Periodic planetary judgment falls under their purview, thus one is mentioned in the Book of Daniel.\n\nEach superuniverse encompasses 100,000 local universes, each founded by a Creator Son of God, like unto Christ in Divine Endowments.\n\nI was about to write more, but the Spirit said, I will test my children, to see if they are diligent.\n\nTherefore I can only give a url for those humble enough to seek further light.\n\nhttp://www.urantia.org/papers/toc.html
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I believe that the source of all creation is a pantheon of gods of male, female, androgyny and sexless genders. The first creation story in the Bible (Genesis 1-2:4) calls this "Elohim" (in original Hebrew), a plural noun referring to both the male and female gender.\n\nI don't live by the Bible, as I am by no means Jewish or Christian, but I do like that it backs up my theory.\n\nI believe They all created the universe as well as the first forms of life by means of physics, evolution, and other scientific methodologies. This is my own personalized theory of theistic evolution, and you can learn more about the most common forms of it here: http://www.religioustolerance.org/ev_world2.htm