Genesis: Two Versions One Book

If Moses was the star witness, for the prosecution, in a trial chances are the defendant would be found not guilty and walk free.

That statement may be wrong. It assumes that the accepted authorship of the book of Genesis is Moses, and that he wrote the book approximately between 1445 BC - 1405 BC. Actually when he wrote it is not important just the fact that he wrote it is.

Genesis starts with the creation narrative. Then it appears to repeat the narrative with additional details There is the problem, the two just do not match up. No matter how you look at it they appear to be two different events. And this can be proven just by reading the Bible.

The first set of details is from Genesis 1:1 - 2:3. The second set of details is from Genesis 2:4 - 2:25. For clarity in referencing the two I shall refer to them as Version 1 and Version 2. All Bible quotes are from the King James Version of the bible.

First Inconsistency

Version 1: "And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good." (Gen 1:9-10)

Version 2: "But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground." (Gen 2:6)

In Version 1, the earth emerges from the waters and is therefore saturated with moisture. In Version 2, the 'whole face of the ground' requires to be moistened.

Second Inconsistency

Version 1: "And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good." (Gen 1:20-21) "And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." (Gen 1:24-26)

Version 2: "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." (Gen 2:7) "And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof." (Gen 2:19)

In Version 1, the birds and animals are created before man. In Version 2, man is created before the birds and animals.

Third Inconsistency

Version 1: "And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven." (Gen 1:20)

Version 2: "And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof." (Gen 2:19)

In Version 1, birds are made out of the water. In Version 2, birds are made out of the ground

Fourth Inconsistency

Version 1: "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." (Gen 1:27)

Version 2: "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." (Gen 2:7) "And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:" (Gen 3:22)

In Version 1, man is created in the image of God. In Version 2, man is made from dust of the ground and does not become like God until Genesis 3:22 where he eats the forbidden fruit.

Fifth Inconsistency

Version 1: "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." (Gen 1:27-28)

Version 2: "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed." (Gen 2:28) "And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it." (Gen 2:15) "And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man." (Gen 2:21-22)

In Version 1, God creates 'male and female' and 'blessed them'. This is the last 'creation' before resting on the seventh day. In Version 2, the male is created, placed in the garden and names all the animals, and then the female is created from the rib of man.

So what happened? Many theories, ideas, and myths exist to explain the differences between the two versions. They are:

• The two accounts were written by two different people at two different times and then united to form one piece of text.
• The man and woman in the first version is Adam & Lilith. The man and woman in the second version is Adam & Eve. This draws on some ancient mythology that Lilith was the first wife of Adam and for one reason or another was expelled from the garden to be replaced by Eve.
• Te first version is before dinosaurs. The second version is after dinosaurs. Referred to as the 'gap theory', instead of being two accounts of the same event it is two separate accounts with the first one being thousands if not millions of years before the second.

So why the differences? Biblical scholars say that the first account is a complete account of the whole of creation. Whereas, the second account is more focused on the creation of man. This may be true but it does not explain the differences.

It doesn't matter really. Nobody can even begin to say when creation took place. Dates range from 4004 BC (Ussher), 11,013 BC (Camping), 12,500 BC (Crawford), and 20,000 BC (Bunsen). If Moses did indeed write Genesis in 1405 BC it would be anywhere from 2,959 to 18,595 years after the event.

And lets not forget the evolutionists. It is all a lie and two atoms happened to collide and started a massive chain of events.