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Originally Posted by Esaias
Mankind was created on the sixth day, but Adam was created after the first Sabbath. The creation accounts in ch 1 and ch2 of Genesis are different, presenting a clearly different and contrary account in each chapter, and therefore cannot be reconciled as two descriptions of the same event, nor is either account clearly symbolic or mythological. Therefore, they each describe a different series of events.
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Chapter One is the synopsis of creation. Each day, poetic in structure.
Chapter Two are the details of man and the garden.
Both are about the same event.
There wasn't a first creation of man, and then came Adam in chapter two. There was only one creation of man with two different stories of origin.
Consider the first two chapters like this: you could journal a week-long vacation, detailing each day's events; and then after doing so, write again in detail about one of the events. It doesn't mean there were two separate events, just that the first entry was a synopsis of the whole week and the second entry detailed one event which happened during that week.
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