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| Genesis 2:7-2:25
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| Today I finished Genesis and two questions came up for me. First what is the “tree of life” mentioned in Genesis 2:9 and secondly, why does the bible tell the creation story of man twice? |
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| After doing some research I have found satisfactory answers to both questions. |
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| http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v7/i4/treeoflife.asp |
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| The Tree of Life stood in the centre of the Garden of Eden which elsewhere is called ‘The Garden of the LORD’.1 It was a real tree, to be sure, but let me suggest that it was also symbolic of the fact that God was, and is, the source of eternal life and blessing. Adam and Eve were to have their life centred in Him, even as the Tree was in the centre of His Garden |
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| http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v7/i4/treeoflife.asp |
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| Same story told twice |
| In Genesis Chapter 1, the emphasis is on the specific acts and details of the Creation itself and the order in which the heavens and the earth were completed. The events of chapter one gives us the main theme, the basic essential facts, the outline and the general information of the creation of a perfect world. The first chapter of Genesis showed that at the conclusion of creation, everything was perfect and without defect, error, sin or death. That is why God was able to rest on the 7th day-- because nothing needed to be changed, corrected, revised or redone. Everything was perfect! Chapter 1 tells us what happened, when it happened, how it was done, the sequential order of how the events occurred, and by whom all of it was done. |
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| In Genesis Chapters 2 & 3, (starting with Genesis 2:4), the emphasis is on the crowning apex of God's creation -- man-- and the events relating to man and how man's actions marred and brought about changes to the original perfect and pristine creation of God. This second account explains to us how sin entered into the world, and why death, sickness, evil, pain, and all the other trials and tribulations that man encounters, came into existence. This second account of the creation gives us the details of how this Perfect world was made imperfect. |
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| In Genesis Chapter 1, the first account of Creation, we are given the orderly, planned, sequential steps of creation as they were designed and directed and executed by the Creator. The emphasis in Chapter 1 is on the specific acts and details of the creation itself. |
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| In Genesis Chapter 2:4 to 3:24, Creation is described again but this time it is explained from the perspective of what actually happened to God's creation. The emphasis in this second creation account is different, because here the emphasis is placed on how and why man was kicked out of the Garden of Eden after he was created, and how he has brought upon himself pain, suffering, and both physical and spiritual death. The purpose of this second version of the story in chapter two is to show how God's perfect creation was marred by man's rebellion and sin. |
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