The biblical events of the creation are described in Genesis 1 & 2. But these narratives do no agree as to the order in which god created the world.

For instance, Genesis 1 gives the following order of events;

plants
animals
man & woman

Genesis 2 gives the following order of creation;

man
plants
animals
woman

Why do these events not agree? In fact, the whole world creation narrative is in a terrible mess. God did not create the sun until the fourth day in one of the narrative. Now, if the sun was not created until the "4th day", was were the days/night determined before the sun was created. How was the earth held around its orbit in the first three days before the sun was created given that the sun's gravitation is responsible for keeping the planets in their orbit?

This whole story is a big big mess!

Please go and answer the question on this thread before you start asking abother one -

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-119817.0.html

anybody knows why god could not remember the order in which he created his creatures?

Another origins thread!

huxley:

Another origins thread!

Interesting. This is similar to what I've tried to deal with on another thread (Adam being the First Man). One has to be careful to read the chapters in their contexts and see that the order and sequence are not confused.

Some have found it helpful to understand that Genesis 1 gives the summary of the account of the creation, while Genesis 2 gives us some details of the same account. That is not hard to see, and it can simplistically stated thus:

Genesis 1 - what God did - "God created man in his own image" (v. 27)
Genesis 2 - how God did it - "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground"


The ORDER/Sequence

Genesis 1
(a) Plants - "grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit" (v11)
(b) Animals - "the moving creature that hath life" (v. 20)
(c) Man and Woman - "So God created man in his own image" (v. 27)

Is this chronology disturbed in Genesis 2? No. How? For the following reasons:

(a) In Gen. 1, we have a definitive sequence very well ordered and attested lucidly in the flow of events. This is evident by the very words descriptive of how God His work

- (i) God said it
- (ii) creation came into existence
- (iii) God examined it
- (iv) the time subscript: evening and morning

- - - -
¹¹"And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree . . ." (etc)
¹²"And the earth brought forth grass. . ."
¹²" . .and God saw that it was good"
¹³"And the evening and the morning were the third day"
- - - -

In the Genesis account, the same sequence is followed for all the other creation activity - the reader could read the chapter and see the point.


However, in Genesis 2 we see that it is NOT a chronological sequence that is brought to our attention, and to suppose it otherwise would be sadly dubious. The account in ch.2 demonstrates the details of specific events - whereas, the summary and chronology of events is what we find in ch. 1 as above. For example, we are not told HOW the woman was created in chapter 1 other than a summary that God created them as "male and female" (v 27). When we turn to chapter 5, we find a declaration of the same event - but again it was NOT a chronology there either!

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man,
in the likeness of God made he him; Male and female created he them; and
blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
-- Genesis 5:1-2

The above is a summary like chapter 1 where we are told that God created man (male and female created he them - v. 27) and then blessed them (v.28).

Chapter 2 does not present a problem as it is not a chronology - to force it to read that way is the very reason why you have such a huge problem to deal with!