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Don

2009-04-20

I see Gen 1-2:4, Gen 2:5-4 and Gen 5 as 3 origins stories. They each have their own purpose and are not necessarily meant to be meshed together into 1 story, altho the 1st and 3rd do so easily. God could have inspired 1 comprehensive story, but did not.

By claiming something that happened in Gen 2 happened on day 6 of Gen 1 implies a merging of the stories that goes too far in my reading. That is, I try assess each story on its own for the point(s) it is making. I do use parts of other stories to make points in a story, such as the God-given name of the man and woman being Adam, yet I do not try to combine them into a single chronological narrative.

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Paul_And_Genesis

2009-04-19