From: bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig)
Subject: Re: *** The list of Biblical contradictions
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hudson@athena.cs.uga.edu (Paul Hudson Jr) writes:
>bskendig@netcom.com (Brian Kendig) writes:
>
>>Specifically: when I bring up the fact that Genesis contains two
>>contradictory creation stories, I usually get blank stares or flat
>>denials.  I've never had a fundamentalist acknowledge that there are
>>indeed two different accounts of creation.
>
>That is because two creation stories is one of the worst examples of 
>a difficulty with the Bible.  "were formed" can also be translated "had been
>formed" in chapter two without any problems.  So the text does not demand
>that there are two creation stories.  

Really?  I don't get it... Genesis first says that God created the
earth, then the animals, then humans; then it turns around and says
that humans were created before animals!  How can you escape this
contradiction?

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