WAS ADAM THE FIRST BEING CREATED OR DID GOD CREATE HUMANITY BEFORE ADAM
While helping my mom with bible study preparation, i had to read up genesis chapters 1 and 2. Chapter 1verses 1-25 tells us how God created the universe, the light and creatures of the sea and land etc. Then in verse 26-28 it says that God created man in his image and his likeness, he created them male and female (nkjv) and blessed them saying subdue the earth, be fruitful, multiply and have dominion. Some translations say God created human beings and made them males and females. After this in chapter 2 verse 3 it says God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it he rested from all his work he created and made. Notice that i bolded the word created, in my opinion i think it means that God spoke and things(thoughts of his mind) came to pass.

Going further into chapter 2 ,we are told of how God formed man from the soil and breathed into him his breath and he became a living being (genesis 2 verse 7).in verse 8 of the same chapter, it says that God then planted a garden eastward of eden and placed the man whom he had formed there.
Verse 9 says out of the ground, God made every tree grow in eden that was pleasant to sight and good for food including the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

God then noticed that man was lonely and decided to make him a helper comparable to him. But notice that God did not make a woman for him immediately but instead formed animals(beasts of the fields and birds of the air) from the ground in eden(genesis chpt 2v19) and after adam named the animals, there still wasn’t a comparable helpmate for him amongst the animals that God had formed, so God caused man to sleep and from his body a rib was taken and from it a woman was made/formed.

From chapter 2 it shows that adam was not created as written in chapter 1 but was formed(to make something from something) from soil/ground/earth. And unlike the creation that took place in chapter 1, Adam had the mind of God( the breath of God was in him)and that God’s plan for Adam was to dwell permanently in eden and take care of it if he had not sinned and God sent him out to the world.
In chapter 5 of genesis, it starts to describe the descendants/genealogy of adam but also introduces the creation that took place in chapter 1v26
This is the book of the genealogy of adam .In the day that God created man ,he made him in the likeness of God. He created them male and female and blessed them and called them mankind(humanity in some translations)in the day they were created.
If the order of creation is to be followed as it was in genesis chapter 1, man was the last thing to be created but in genesis chapter2 man was created before animals after which eve was created

My questions thus are as follows

Were adam and eve the same folks that the bible says were created in genesis chapter 1 verse 26

How possible could it have been for just 2 people to populate the earth so quickly if there hadn’t been other beings that were created as full adults, blessed and given the ability to procreate. This could also explain the mystery of the woman that cain married when he became a wanderer

Did God actually stop all work after the sixth day or did God rest on the seventh day and after that planted the garden, formed man and woman and animals and birds of the air, the trees including that of knowledge of good and evil.

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