Genesis 1&2

On Thursday we talked about a lot! Sometimes when sitting in class I feel daft because everything is so overwhelming. I hear my classmates talking about the bible or religion and it makes me feel like I need to get my butt in gear to understand their "french" (Gomes) conversation I am not apart of. We talked about the word Lacuna or 'gap in a story' and its interesting to think there are gaps in the bible, stories that will never be finished, and stories that we can not even fathom to understand. In the readings of Gensis 1&2 I noticed some differences. In Genesis 1 God first creates heaven and earth. He creates everything from night and day to creatures, land, eden and saves adam and eve until day 6. then God takes a mini breather and declares the seventh day to be a kick back sunday night football 'day'. God creates man in his image and in that created both adam and eve at the same time! In Gensis 2 the Lord God appears to make man in the same day he creates the Heavens and earth. He creates man (and man alone) from the dust of the earth and breathes into his nostrils to give him life and a soul. This story also touches upon the four rivers that lead out of Eden, and talks in detail of the tree of knowledge of good and evil and how man shalt not eat from this tree or thou shalt surely die. then the Lord God creates the creatures for Adam to care for and he gets to name them all. Adam falls asleep and the Lord God takes one of his ribs and with this rib creates Eve. so woman was created from man, or so the story goes. I personally like the second Genesis more. It gives more detail and proved to be an interesting read. The part where Adam blames Eve for their fall even though he eats the fruit just as she does seems vaguely familiar to men today... Im just saying..