@chaski Said 
Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 have a bit of a contradiction as to the timing of creation. Some christians have invented a kind of circular-slippery slope set of arguments and reasonings to explain the conflict between Gen 1 & Gen 2... Personally I find it comical.
What conflict? Maybe you can explain that tome because I just re-read it, and find no conflict at all.
The first 4 verses are simply a very brief summary of Chapter 1 summary of Chapter 1. Whereas the rest of the chapter simply expands on the 6th day.
No contradictions, no conflicts. Maybe it would have been easier for you to understand had the writer put the first four verses as part of Chapter 1 and started Chapter 2 at verse 5?
True Chapter 1:11 says "And God went on to say: “Let the earth cause grass to shoot forth, vegetation bearing seed, fruit trees yielding fruit according to their kinds, the seed of which is in it, upon the earth.” And it came to be so. " and Chapter 2:5 says "Now there was as yet no bush of the field found in the earth and no vegetation of the field was as yet sprouting, because Jehovah God had not made it rain upon the earth and there was no man to cultivate the ground." but is that a contradiction?
The first scripture mentions only grass and fruit trees, none of which need much in the way of cultivation. The second example talks of the "bush of the field" implying plants that require care, something which was also implied by the statement that there was "no man to cultivate the ground."
In fact the two verses are talking about two separate and non- contradictory things. First the "wild vegetation" needed to stabilise the atmosphere and next the "cultivated plants" needed for food.
I don't know what other explanations you have been given, but that is simply the obvious and logical explanation of it. Again, no contradiction simply two unrealated events.
Please tell me, where is the contradiction in that?
Apr 03, 2012 @ 11:55:59
Peace is either not willed OR willed to the common Will of many.
