Cheryl Schatz

Don,

create is something only God does

This isn’t true. I can create a song and I can form a pot.

Form is a subset of creation and while it is not synonymous with plants since plants were created but not formed, it is synonymous with humans since humans were created by being formed. Genesis 1 says that Eve was created and Genesis 2 says that Eve was formed. This is not a contradiction but the same thing. She was not created twice nor was she formed twice.

The creation account in Genesis 1 & 2 do not contradict each other. There is no error in the account. There is no second witness in any of the other scriptures that Eve was created twice – once inside the body of Adam and a second time in a separation from Adam. There is also no second witness that Adam was created as a non-gendered human and then re-created or gendered later. There was one creation for male and one creation for female. Jesus didn’t say that God created the non-gendered human or the male/female multi-sex being in the beginning. The creation “from the beginning” in Jesus’ testimony was that mankind was male AND female.

Matthew 19:4 And He answered and said, “Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE,

Jesus said that this was “two” flesh people not one and this is why marriage is to bring them into oneness.

Matthew 19:6 “So they are no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.”

The joining of two people comes after marriage. Jesus does not say that there were two people in the beginning jointed in one flesh, then separated and then brought back together. I know that this is what you believe, but Jesus does not substantiate this. Instead Jesus said that in the beginning there were two and the two were then joined together in marriage to become one.

How do you take the account in Genesis 2 that says that there was no plants or bushes yet on the land? Do you see this as a contradiction of Genesis 1?