Adam And The 8th Day Creation

Some don’t believe that Adam and Eve were the first 2 humans. The idea is that on the 6th day God created humans, then on the 8th day God created Adam and Eve.

I’ll explain the reasons for Adam and Eve being an 8th day creation then you can decide.

Gen 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

In Genesis 2:1 the heavens and the earth are finished.

Gen 2:5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and [there was] not a man to till the ground.

Now God is saying that there was no man to till the ground, no farmer. So when did God create man? Let’s go back to Genesis 1:26.

Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

In Genesis 1:26 God created fisherman and hunters.

Then in Genesis 2:7 God created a farmer, Adam.

Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Notice that in Gen 1:26 and 2:7 both use the word man. I looked this up in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of The Bible and found that both use the Hebrew word H120, אדם or ‘adam in English, which can mean a man, mankind, or Adam the first man. So is there a difference between the word man in Gen 1:26 and 2:7?

To take this a step further I cracked open The Companion Bible and for the word ‘man’ it referred me to Appendix 14 where it explains the synonym words used for “MAN.” It says that Adam without the article denotes man or mankind in general, E.G. Gen 1:26, 2:5, 5:1. With the particle (’eth) in addition to the article it is very emphatic, and means self, very, this same, this very, E.G. Gen 2:7, and it’s the first occurrence of this.

So according to E. W. Bullinger there is a big difference between the word man in Gen 1:26 and Gen 2:7.

I thought it would be interesting to see how The Septuagint translated Gen 1:27 and Gen 2:7, since both verses are about creating a man.

LXX Gen 1:27 And God made man, according to the image of God he made him, male and female he made them.

LXX Gen 2:7 And God formed the man of dust of the earth, and breathed upon his face the breath of life, and the man became a living soul.

Interesting, in Gen 2:7 it says God formed “the” man and in Gen 1:27 it says God made man. It seems that there is a clear difference of the word man according to The Septuagint which further confirms that in 1:26 God created mankind and on the 8th day in 2:7 God created The Adam.

If Genesis 2 is just Genesis 1 in more detail then we would expect the order of creation to be the same in each chapter. Interestingly, we find a difference that further clues us to Adam being an 8th day creation.

First let us look at Genesis 1. In verses 1:20 – 1:24 God created the animals, then in verse 1:26 he created man.

Gen 1:20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl [that] may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

Gen 1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Now Genesis 2 God created man then created the animals.

Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Gen 2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought [them] unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that [was] the name thereof.

The order of creation is different. I believe that this implies God created man and animals on day 6, then on day 8 he created animals to help Adam with farming. According to Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of The Bible, in verse 2:19 the word fowl in ‘every fowl of the air’ is Hebrew word H5775, עוף `owph which can mean flying creatures, fowl, insects, or birds. H5775 (fowl) is used in both 1:20 and 2:19. It is possible that on the 8th day God created insects to help with pollination but these insects were not created on the 5th day.

In conclusion I think we should be open to the possibility of Adam being an 8th day creation. He was created in Gods image and he was the start of the Geneology of which Christ would come.

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