Genesis Creation Accounts in the Term Paper

God then decides to create a helper for man in the form of a woman (Eve), created by taking "one of his ribs," whereby Adam proclaims that Eve is the "bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh" and that she is his wife ("they shall be one flesh").

Thus, the only differences between these two versions is that the creation of the earth and the heavens serves as a centerpoint for the first and the creation of Adam and Eve serve as the focus for the second version. As to the religious truths to be found in these versions, the most basic truth is that God created everything, from the earth to the sky to water to the "beasts of the field" and lastly man and woman in the form of Adam and Eve. All of this was of divine creation, meaning that God and only God created the heavens and the earth from nothingness and made the world as a home for mankind. Also, God made man "in his image," meaning that man is the spiritual equivalent of God on earth.

Also, it is clear that both of these accounts of creation in the Book of Genesis were included by the early editors of the Holy Bible (in this case, King James I who allegedly excised many portions of the Bible) because they complement on another and serve as a kind of extended narrative concerning how the earth, the heavens, the seas and the "beast of the field" were first created in Chapter One and then how man and woman were created in Chapter Two. Luckily, the editors of these two versions had the insight to realize that thousands of years later, people would read these creation accounts and hopefully come to understand that both versions are simply extensions of one another, with the first version being the most basic and the second version being more…