greentwiga writes:
It says "male and female he created them" Where does it say one each or two? Prior to that, it says him, but then modifies that with the specifics I quoted. It could be two as you say, or two hundred. God created man, but there is no reason that he had to limit himself to two. Gen 5:2 says the same thing, slightly reworded. Again, Adam is the first named, but The Bible allows that he might have been different from the man of Gen 1. If they are the same, then yes, God only created two, and the Bible supports the Young Earth Creationists. From my study, I believe that God created man in Africa and the Garden of Eden could only have been in Southern Turkey.
i assume you've taken into consideration the very real possibility that Moses wrote about the account of creation more then once.
He wrote the order of events of creation in Gen 1.
Then he wrote a more detailed account about Adam and Eve in Chpt 2.
Then he wrote an account of how the serpent interfered with Gods creation in chpt 3.
Why must these separate accounts be considered as one piece of writing??? I'm sure you realise that they weren't one piece of writing before they were compiled into the form of a book.
For evidence of that you just have to look at the dead sea scrolls. Among these scrolls are sections of bound scroll with particular books from the bible in them. Not one scroll contains a complete 'book' of the bible as we have it. So why is it assumed that Moses wrote the 'book of Genesis' as one complete chronological piece of writing?
Edited by Peg, : No reason given.
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