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Now about the chronology. I have not said that Gen 1 is not historic so don’t read me that way. What i am saying is that grammatically you are inserting the narrative of Gen 1 which is supposed to act like an overview, into the middle of 2 and 3.

Then answer these questions, When did God tell them to multiply? Did he tell them after the woman was created, which would be sometime after the account of Gen 2 where the woman was created, or before, or is there some other possibility? How long after Eve’s creation do you think God waited to give her something to eat? The sole purpose of Gen 1 is not to act as an overview, it is all to serve the details on a plate, plain and clear of what happened at creation. Now it may give less details and the same details but in different ways, but it still adds more details that are not given in Gen 2, – there’s no argument against that.

IF you continue to want to make a literal chronology of events, then please start showing how the animals are made before Adam in Gen 1 but after in Gen 2, or how the plants are made on day 3 but not there until the man is made in Gen 2.

Cheryl has explained this somewhere here on her blog. If I can find it for you I’ll post the links. When I become interested in such discussion we can go at it then if you’d like. 😛
You are treating the accounts as if they could possibly contradict one another. That’s my point – they absolutely CANNOT and do NOT and the reason being because they tell the same exact story but just from different angels and perspective with different details. I’ve never understood why this is a big deal to some, except it is tradition to say that there are contradictions amongst the accounts. This I do not believe. I don’t believe in a contradictory God who makes no sense.