By faith, I believe that God created us and the universe in which we live. But that resolute statement does not preclude questions about the biblical account of our origin. Here are two of them:
Question 1: On the fourth day of creation God made the sun to separate day from night and to mark the passage of time.
If it wasn’t until day four until we knew what a day was, how then could the first three days have been measured and counted?
Consider that if someone was in pitch-black, solitary confinement for a period of time and then later given a watch, he would still not know how much time had already passed.
Question 2: What about Eve? In Genesis 1, it says that on the sixth day God created man and woman—at the same time. In Genesis 2, the timeline is different. The world is made. Adam is created and placed in the garden of Eden to care for it and all the animals.
Then God realizes that his creation is incomplete. Adam is alone. So then God makes Eve. This occurs after he made everything else and not at the same time he created Adam.
Which is it?
More Genesis questions will be asked in the next post about Cain.
[Genesis 1:14-19, Genesis 1:27-31, Genesis 2:4-22]
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