Genesis

[Brother Adam]

[quote name='angels111' date='Sep 18 2005, 11:27 AM']It's interesting to note, if you read Genesis carefully, that there are two creation narratives. What is important is that it happened, man fell from grace and was restored through Christ.
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Which of course, if you know basic biblical exegesis are in no way in conflict with each other. One accounts the creation of all that is, the second in a special way account the specific creation of man. To say that "man fell from grace and was restored through Christ" is all that is to be gained from the first chapters of scripture does great damage to the Sacred Scriptures interrupting the harmonious flow of Salvation History.

To put it in an even simplier way for understanding, think of a movie in which the director opens giving you a sweeping view of a mountain range in all of its splendor to glorious music, then in the next scene the camara pulls foreward and focuses on a specific creature, tiny in comparision to the whole of creation. In a similiar fashion, Moses in authoring the creation account gives us a granduer view of all of creation and then focuses on man. The two chapters do not conflict with each other, and one discovers they are indeed the same account of creation. Chapter one gives us that broad overview, chapter two focuses the camara specifically on man.