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Two Creation Accounts?

Two Creation Accounts?

Are Genesis 1 and 2 contradictory or complementary?

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Matt Harrison
Apr 19, 2024
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If you’re a keen reader of Genesis you may have noticed that chapters 1 and 2 share similar, yet distinctive, features. Chapter 1 presents a blow by blow account of creation - light on the first day, sky on the second day, land and seas on the third day, and so on. Chapter 2 contains more detail, identifying a garden - called Eden - which emerges as the…

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