I hope this is not out of line, I am wanting to learn.
I come in Peace....
Would I be wrong to presume that when a person begins to study, and starts that study in beginning and that beginning was incorrect, then the whole work study, no matter how good the completed work would seem, would be wrong? And would not the opposite be just as true were that study to start out correctly, that perhaps the whole study would have more of a chance of being correct?
Example am I incorrect in my understanding and reason, that the first two verses of Genesis 1 speak of the first or one creation?
Gen 1:1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Gen 1:2 Now, the earth, had become waste and wild, and darkness, was on the face of the roaring deep,—but, the Spirit of God, was brooding on the face of the waters,
And also with that reasoning I would be correct that verses 1-3 of chapter one is the first day of the second creation
I now have 2 creations, would that be a correct finding?
Now here I read what some have called the 8th day but could it not possibly be yet another creation?
Gen 2:4 These are births of the heavens and of the earth in their being prepared, in the day of Jehovah God's making earth and heavens;
For we go on to read that the Lord God made/formed/created man, rivers, vegetation to grow, cattle, and all creeping things, and then woman, does this not give the idea at least of a 3rd creation?
I am just considering these thoughts. We know what happens in chapter 3 and 4 of Genesis, but then we come to chapter 5...
Gen 5:1 This is an account of the births of Adam: In the day of God's preparing man, in the likeness of God He hath made him;
Gen 5:2 a male and a female He hath prepared them, and He blesseth them, and calleth their name Man, in the day of their being prepared.
Are we perhaps speaking of yet another creation? Creation number 4?
I also notice here in Gen. 1:26 " And God saith, `Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness,""
but when I go to Genesis 1:27 "And God prepareth the man in His image;"
Then in Genesis 5:1 "....In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
So what I read is in Gen.1:26-27 man was not created in the "image and likeness" but in the IMAGE, in creation number 2 and in creation number 4 Gen.5:1 man is made in the LIKENESS?
And we also know that in creation number 2 and 4 that it is "male and female that He created them."
Now Gen 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
Would this not be considered yet another creation? Number 5?
Gen 7:23 And every living thing was destroyed that was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping things, and birds of the heavens; and they were destroyed from the earth:
Now I realize that this flood was only in a certain area, yet it is a starting again is it not?
I await correspond with corrections, reproof, and chastisment of course, I just hope we can learn.
Peace and Love Through Jesus.