Timeline for What is the reasoning behind the belief that Eve was NOT created on the sixth day?
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| Jul 8, 2014 at 4:08 | comment | added | Jesse | I'd agree with you again, fredsbend, however Scripture makes it very clear that Eve was named such because she was "mother of all living". This becomes literal as opposed to inference since we know she cannot be the mother of the animals. | |
| Jul 8, 2014 at 3:57 | comment | added | mojo | +1 regarding the naming of the beasts. This is the only salient argument I've ever heard in support of the inference that Genesis 2 either happened later or that the whole account is metaphorical in some way and is not to be taken literally. | |
| Jul 8, 2014 at 0:00 | comment | added | user3961 | @Jesse Again, that depends on how you define man. "Adam was the first man that God personally communed with." That might be what they would say. Just like Israel was the first people God communed with. Like most theologically opposing thoughts, this comes down to definitions. | |
| Jul 7, 2014 at 21:04 | comment | added | Jesse | I'd completely agree with you here, however Scripture tells us Adam was in fact the FIRST man in 1 Corinthians 15:45. While it could very well be a language discrepancy, I find that harder to believe than Adam not being the first. The Hebrew אָדָם does have different variations (mankind, man, man/woman, and male) - to my limited knowledge of Greek, such an issue is not the case. So we can affirm through Paul that Adam was, in fact, the very first man. I used to think there were people created beforehand too. The more I learned, the more I knew I suppose. | |
| Jul 7, 2014 at 20:56 | comment | added | user3961 | @Jesse The depends on how you define mankind, I think. There are views on this that say there were people created before Adam and Eve, but Adam and Eve were personally created by God. They were deemed special, just like the people Israel. | |
| Jul 7, 2014 at 20:52 | comment | added | Jesse | I agree with the above, but I disagree about being "literal of more valid than the other". As Scripture cannot contradict itself, reading Genesis 2, in verses 5-6 God waters the earth and causes the plants to grow. We read this in Genesis 1:11-12, on the third day. As such, it's literal and valid enough to say that the Genesis 2 account of Adam and Eve's creation, in fact, took place on the very same day - Day 6 - unless somehow there was a woman before Eve, which contradicts Eve being the mother of mankind. | |
| Jul 7, 2014 at 20:29 | history | edited | user3961 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 7, 2014 at 20:08 | history | answered | user3961 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |