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Originally posted by doctrbill
"According to Genesis chapter one, which human was created first, male or female?"
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Originally posted by TrueCreation
"... The Male, the order of creation has nothing to do with embryonic developmental structure."
"male and female created he them" on the sixth day. Gen. 1:27.
They are apparently spoken into existence simultaneously, like everything else is in the first chapter of Genesis.
The second chapter gives a quite different scenario wherein the male is formed as a sculpture and then animated by breathing into his nostrils. The female is made sometime later, after it has become apparent that the male can find no suitable mate among the animals.
The male is formed out of soil, but the female is made via a surgical proceedure: a rib is removed from the male and used to form the body of the female.
Were they both, male and female, spoken into existence on the sixth day?
Or was the male sculpted and then animated, and the female subsequently constructed from a rib of the man?
Chapter two certainly makes it clear that the male was made first.
Chapter one strongly suggests that they appeared simultaneously by the miraculous power of God's spoken command.
This is why I ask the question regarding which came first.
The Bible presents two alternatives, two theories if you will.
Chapter one presents the sexes as having equal status: both of them sharing the mastery of all life in the universe (heaven, earth and sea); both of them living in a world that was "very good."
Chapter two presents the male as the pre-eminent one and the female as a derivation of him: both of them workers on a plantation; both of them failing the test of loyalty; both of them losing their jobs, being placed on probation, and expelled from the plantation to the thorny desert outside its gate.
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