Serious question for bible based creationists
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pabra-14905 — 9 years ago(October 09, 2016 01:19 PM)
I've been looking at the early chapters of Genesis in my spare time and generally studying the matter. Genesis 1 gives specific time markers, first day, second day etc. Plants were formed on day 3 and man on day 6. We then go to Genesis 2:8-9 which appears to say that plants in general were created after man. It turns out to be in part a question of how to translate the Hebrew verbs. verse 9 reads in the King James "And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil." It would also be a legitimate translation of the Hebrew for the the first sentence to read "And out of the ground The Lord God had made to grow every tree." This means that it is referring the the past action on day 3. Verse 19 which mentions the creation of the animals follows a similar grammatical construction. Genesis 2:8 seems to in indicate that God created the Garden of Eden for man on Day 6 but generally speaking plants were created on day 3.