Don

I see both Gen creation accounts as true, but I suspect you mean something different by true if you read them literally and I read them poetically, for want of betters words to succinctly describe our differences. The essential reason I read them thus is because I (and many others) cannot in good conscience join them into one account based on the information given in the text of each account. To be specific, if the days in Gen 1 are held to be literal and sequential and the order of events in Gen 2 is also held to be literal and sequential, I do not see how to harmonize the accounts; so this is a big clue for me (and many previous interpreters, I am far from alone on this) that one is to read these accounts in a non-literal (i.e., poetic) way. If you do not see it this way, I have no problem with it and can believe you are acting in faith, my wish is that you agree I am ALSO acting in faith to see it my (different) way.

My point on saying side and not rib is that MORE is involved; if someone talks about the side of a house, it is MORE than just a plank, altho it will include planks, a side can even be 50% of something. Further on rib, I once heard a sincere woman in a Bible study claim that all men had one less rib then women did, I disabused her as I thought it was a bad witness as it is so easily shown to be wrong.