I hear so often that there are no contradictions in the Bible but we get a huge one in the very first book of Genesis:

Genesis 1 and 2 contradict each other on the fundamental nature of God: Is he perfect or does he make mistakes?

In Genesis 1 we see God create and everything he creates is good. Gets it right the first time, no notes. Makes animals and then humans and he sees that it's all very good.

But in Genesis 2 we see that god creates...but he sees that it is NOT good that Adam is alone and so he creates animals for him to find a companion...but this doesn't work either and so he creates a woman to be a companion

So which is it?
Did God make everything how he wanted it the first time or did he need to tweak his creation to get it right?

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1490wayb · 56-60, M

i suggest learning exactly what the original language says...hebrew language??

Pikachu

@1490wayb

Yup, that's where the contradiction becomes clearest.
Later translations often attempt to massage the phrasing to smooth out certain contradictions like the diffing order of creations between Genesis 1 and 2.

You can watch a short video on this subject if you're interested. He points out a couple more big contradictions in the nature of God.

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PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@1490wayb it is not even that simple. You have some Hebrew, the spoken language of Jesus and the apostles was Aramaic, and the new testament was written in Greek.