BIBLICAL & SCIENTIFIC ANSWERS

It’s amazing how many Christians, including pastors and Christian college professors, think Genesis 1 and 2 are contradictory accounts of creation. No, they are complementary accounts with Genesis 1 as a summary in chronological order and Genesis 2 focusing in on the details of how God created the first man and woman. This then sets the stage for the fall of man in Genesis 3. And this is confirmed in Matthew 19 where Jesus was asked about marriage.

We learn in Genesis 2:7, “Then Yahweh God formed man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and so the man became a living being.” This first man could not have evolved from some apelike creature as some claim because: 1. He was made from directly from dust, not from a previously existing creature. And the “dust” can’t be symbolic of an animal because God said this man would return to “dust” when he dies (Genesis 3:19) because of sin. Humans don’t return to some creature like an ape-man when they die.