Ehret.Marcia and Creation - Essay Example

Marcia, Ehret and Creation How are the accts in chap 2 similar and different? The first three chapters of Genesis Chapter 2 are in coherence with the accounts of creation given in chapter one. The first three series of verses are similar to the chapter one because in an instance, when the acts of creation end on the sixth day, we are told of what God did on the seventh day in Chapter 2 verse 3 “And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

” The differences however continue from verse 4 and especially in verse 7 when we are told that God created humankind by forming him with clay instead of speaking as it was professed in Chapter 1.2) To whom were they intended or what are the foci in both accts?(who is the subject of each acct and who is the audience) There could be two major audiences. First, we are told that God used the pronoun ‘us’ in saying “Let us create man in our own image”. The first audience therefore were the supposedly accomplishes (Angels and Jesus) with whom God created the universe and humankind.

The second audience however is the people ‘They’ were creating. It was to be a living legacy to enable humankind know his roots and origin.3) Why are there 2 accts of creation in GenesisThere are 2 accts of creation in Genesis because there were two classes of creatures (Breeden, 2011). First, the universe and secondly humankind. God grouped His creation into these groups and the latter was to have dominion over the former. It is for the reason of such groupings that there are different accounts.

REFERENCE LISTBreeden T. ‘Two Different Creation Accounts in Genesis 1 & 2? Or Two Complementary Accounts?’ http://siriusknotts.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/two-different-creation-accounts-in-genesis-1-2-or-two-complementary-accounts/ . 2011. Web. July 4, 2011The Holy Bible, 2009Genesis Chapter 2, The Skeptic’s Annotated Bible. http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/gen/2.html. 2011. Web. July 4, 2011.