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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Guys, "The Bible" does not even agree with itself

GE 1:3-5 On the first day, God created light, then separated light and darkness. 
GE 1:14-19 The sun (which separates night and day) wasn't created until the fourth day.

GE 1:11-12, 26-27 Trees were created before man was created. 
GE 2:4-9 Man was created before trees were created.

GE 1:20-21, 26-27 Birds were created before man was created. 
GE 2:7, 19 Man was created before birds were created.

GE 1:24-27 Animals were created before man was created. 
GE 2:7, 19 Man was created before animals were created.

GE 1:26-27 Man and woman were created at the same time. 
GE 2:7, 21-22 Man was created first, woman sometime later.

...and that is just part of the way through Genesis.[/quote]
I find it hard to believe that you actually think that the author of Genesis couldn't keep his story straight from one chapter to the immediate chapter after it.

Regarding light and the sun, God is light. It is possible that the light mentioned here is in reference to the separation of created matter from God Himself. And then on Day 4, the actual heavenly bodies are created to regulate days and seasons and years, as the Bible says. (Incidentally, the Bible says water was created before the sun, which makes this story in Space.com about water being older than the sun pretty interesting to me: https://www.space.com/27256-earth-water-older-than-sun.html.)

Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 should be read as an overview in Chapter 1 and a more detailed look in Chapter 2. They are not two different accounts.

The references to vegetation in Genesis 2 are about agriculture and working the land for food and God planting a garden for Adam and Eve to enjoy and live in. It's mentioning a specific place that God put Adam and Eve, rather than just setting them loose anywhere. This can easily be differentiated from God creating vegetation itself in Genesis 1.

Genesis 2 does not say that God created man and then animals. In verse 19, it merely references that God had created animals and that now He brought them to Adam to be named. You can claim this as a contradiction if you are committed to seeing contradictions where none need exist, but this is not a difficult thing to reconcile between the two chapters.

Same thing goes for creating Adam and Eve. How committed are you to finding Biblical contradictions? You claim to be reading and thinking, but this objection is just pedantic clinging to an objection for objection's sake. Genesis 1 says God created male and female. Genesis 2 gives the particulars. This is not controversial unless you want to make it controversial.[/quote]

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