1.07b Genesis 2 – Adam and Eve Creation Part B

Genesis 2 has a second (or different) account of creation.

In this account:

  • God created a man called Adam. He is created out of dust. God breathes life into him.
  • God provides him everything he needed in the Garden of Eden. God told Adam not to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
  • God creates all the animals in the world and Adam names them but none are suitable to be his partner.
  • God puts Adam to sleep and taking a rib from Adam creates Eve.
  • Their lives were perfect until they disobeyed him, which led to God banishing them from the Garden of Eden forever.
genesis 2 Storyboard by connornorthrup

TASK 1 – Can you memorise this different story of creation in the correct order?

WHAT DOES THIS ACCOUNT TELL US?

Firstly it agrees with Genesis 1

GOD HAS

TRANSCENDENCE – He is above and beyond everything he created. He is unlike anything else that exists. He is separate to his creation.

GOD IS

ETERNAL – God creates heaven and earth ‘in the beginning”, but as he already existed it shows he was there before the beginning of this world. He is eternal.

OMNIPOTENT – God i all powerful, creation happens just by him commanding it (Gen 1:3). Before he starts creating nothing exists. He creates the world form nothing – CREATION EX NIHILO

But it also shows GOD IS:

BENEVOLENT – God is all loving. He creates out of love. God needs nothing but provides everything humans need. God does not want man (Adam) to be lovely so he creates other species to keep him company and lets Adam name them. He also knew they were not suitable partners so creates Eve.

THIS VIDEO SUMMARIES WHAT WE LEARN FROM GENESIS:

RED ZONE

Describe the two different creation stories from Genesis.

Explain the differences between the accounts of creation in Genesis 1 and Genesis 2

Explain what the accounts of creation tell us about God and Humans

“The Bible contains two different creation stories which proves The Bible is wrong” How might a Christian respond to this statement?

Explain how the creation stories within Genesis might prove a link between Science and Religion?