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There Are Two Creation Stories In Genesis And Two Flood Stories by AntiChristian: 5:14pm On Jan 09, 2020
There are two creation stories in Genesis
There are also two creation stories at the beginning of Genesis. First is the six-day creation story that enumerates the things God created day by day, after which God rested. Next is an older creation story, the one about the Garden of Eden.

Apologists try to harmonize these two, saying that the Garden of Eden story is just an in-depth look at the last day of creation, but details in the two stories disagree. The 6-day story says that humans can eat from every tree, while the Eden story says that one is forbidden. The 6-day story has plants and animals before humans, while the Eden story has the opposite. And so on (more).

There are even two Flood stories
You see the trend: the Old Testament often has two different, incompatible stories. Each was too precious for ancient editors to discard, so both were jammed together somehow. The two Ten Commandments stories are separated by over a dozen chapters, the two creation stories are back to back, and they’re interleaved in the Flood story.

In Flood story 1, the older story, Noah takes seven pairs of all clean animals plus one pair of all the others. Once on board with his family, it rained for forty days and forty nights, and everything outside the ark was killed. Noah sent out a dove to scout for dry land. On the second try, it returned with an olive leaf. Back on dry land, Noah sacrificed one of every clean animal to Yahweh, and Yahweh promised to never again destroy life on earth (with a flood, anyway).

In story #2, God is named, not Yahweh, but Elohim, and specifics about the design of the ark are given. With just one pair of each animal plus provisions, Noah (now 600 years old) and family go into the ark. This time, the water comes, not from rain, but from “the fountains of the great deep” and “the windows of the heavens.” Water had covered the earth for 150 days when Elohim made the water recede. This time it was a raven that helped scout for dry land, and they were back on dry land after a year in the ark. God told them to “be fruitful and multiply.”
Re: There Are Two Creation Stories In Genesis And Two Flood Stories by Betakeshi: 5:18pm On Jan 09, 2020
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Re: There Are Two Creation Stories In Genesis And Two Flood Stories by illicit(m): 5:34pm On Jan 09, 2020
it is called story story
Re: There Are Two Creation Stories In Genesis And Two Flood Stories by ignitewatch(m): 6:14pm On Jan 09, 2020
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Re: There Are Two Creation Stories In Genesis And Two Flood Stories by peggywebbs(f): 2:42am On Jan 10, 2020
@AntiChristian my friend. I keep telling you that the bible was not written by one person but is a collection of ancient texts on scrolls and tablets by writers.

The old testament account are compiled ancient texts from people that have died over millions of years ago. The reason you find two or three accounts of the story again is just like guardian, vanguard and punch telling an eye witness story.

They didn't have journalists in the modern day sense but they had people who reported news wrote them down and that's how news travelled from country to country through ancient texts.

The Catholics complied these texts to prove that they had found two or more completely separate texts from different sources talking about the same thing. The similarity in the text proves that these incidents happened and were passed from generation to generation until our time today.

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Re: There Are Two Creation Stories In Genesis And Two Flood Stories by AntiChristian: 5:33am On Jan 10, 2020
peggywebbs:
@AntiChristian my friend. I keep telling you that the bible was not written by one person but is a collection of ancient texts on scrolls and tablets by writers.

The old testament account are compiled ancient texts from people that have died over millions of years ago. The reason you find two or three accounts of the story again is just like guardian, vanguard and punch telling an eye witness story.

They didn't have journalists in the modern day sense but they had people who reported news wrote them down and that's how news travelled from country to country through ancient texts.

The Catholics complied these texts to prove that they had found two or more completely separate texts from different sources talking about the same thing. The similarity in the text proves that these incidents happened and were passed from generation to generation until our time today.

When a Book is called a scripture then there should exist a perfect or close to perfect authenticity without room for ambiguity.

What the copyists of the Bible did of mistakes from one generation to another is too much to mention! The God of the Bible didn't protect it and the human copyists did a shabby job.

Two entirely different stories on the same topic can't be both true. At least one would be a lie.
And God does not inspire falsehood.
Re: There Are Two Creation Stories In Genesis And Two Flood Stories by peggywebbs(f): 8:58am On Jan 10, 2020
Now you see where you are wrong. If the words were altered or changed to make them be the same or perfect, it means that the truth has been doctored.

The scripture again is not just one book and thats why is called scriptures. They are eye witness accounts of incidents, you can't change the story on vanguard can you even when you hear that punch carried an accurate news.

I remember when a news carried over 32 killed and then BBC mentioned was it 28 about the bombing in Cameroon. The stories did not match up when looking at the number of casualties but they both admitted there was a bombing. Did that change the truth?

I hope that explains it all.





AntiChristian:


When a Book is called a scripture then there should exist a perfect or close to perfect authenticity without room for ambiguity.

What the copyists of the Bible did of mistakes from one generation to another is too much to mention! The God of the Bible didn't protect it and the human copyists did a shabby job.

Two entirely different stories on the same topic can't be both true. At least one would be a lie.
And God does not inspire falsehood.
Re: There Are Two Creation Stories In Genesis And Two Flood Stories by ENEMYOFGOD6: 11:32am On Jan 10, 2020
grin angry angry angry angry.

The bitter truth is that the so called God doesn't exist. The creation story is false,the religious leader used those fictitious fairytale story to deceive gullible people.God o,Jesus o,Satan o,Angeles o.all of them doesn't exist. grin grin
Re: There Are Two Creation Stories In Genesis And Two Flood Stories by AntiChristian: 11:50am On Jan 10, 2020
peggywebbs:
Now you see where you are wrong. If the words were altered or changed to make them be the same or perfect, it means that the truth has been doctored.

The scripture again is not just one book and thats why is called scriptures. They are eye witness accounts of incidents, you can't change the story on vanguard can you even when you hear that punch carried an accurate news.

I remember when a news carried over 32 killed and then BBC mentioned was it 28 about the bombing in Cameroon. The stories did not match up when looking at the number of casualties but they both admitted there was a bombing. Did that change the truth?

I hope that explains it all.

No it doesn't. You just keep proving the Bible is a failed project as 2Tim. 3 Verse 16 says:
[16] All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

How can all scripture be given by inspiration when there are clear contradictions?

Conflicting stories of which only one can can be true!
Re: There Are Two Creation Stories In Genesis And Two Flood Stories by Inteltower: 12:36pm On Jan 10, 2020
what does windows of heaven mean to you ?

I won't go further to floor this argument and contradiction u have started evidently proving your shallow reasoning. u think everything in life is plain

only they the Lord has open their eyes (understanding) by the Holy spirit will understand the truth in the scriptures
am happy your kind will keep being in the dark on the word of God because u think with ur canal mind u will understand and by searching the scriptures with an evil intent like Satan/Pharisees to find fault against God that he will enlighten you.

self deceit is the worst kind of deceit

have an open mind if u want the truth (understanding)

no point to convince u your blinded hate for God is your ignorance clouding ur sense of judgement

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