The Bible Presents Contradictory Creation Accounts

Thank you for your attempt at refuting the contradiction. I accept your apologyRECAPI AM arguing two premises and contradictions: What came first, the man or the beast? Was man created before or after the woman? With those two contradictions, it appears that my opponent is arguing the "fact" that Genesis 2 is a recap of Genesis 1 with lots more detail. I do not necessarily buy this attempt and there are two major issues with this:The Jewish Rabbis/scribes understood a contradictionAccording to the early Jewish rabbis, they understood a contradiction. Thus, in the Zohar, a rabbinic comentary and part of the Jewish mysticism [1], they invented the story of Lillith, Adam's first wife."When the letters of the name of Adam, descend below, together in their completness, the male and the female were found together, and the female was attached to his side, until God cast a deep slumber upon him and he fell asleep. And he lay in the place of the Temple below. And the Holy One, blessed be He, sawed her off him, and adorned her as they adorn a bride, and brought her to him...In an ancient book I found this [refers to] the primeval Lilith who was with him and conceived from him, but was not a helpmeet for him..." Zohar 3:34b"Come and see: There is a female, a spirit of all spirits, and her name is Lilith, and she was at first with Adam. And in the hour when Adam was created and his body became completed, a thousand spirits from the left [evil] side clung to that body until the Holy One, blessed be He, shouted at them and drove them away. And Adam was lying, a body without a spirit, and his appearance was green, and all those spirits surrounded him. In that hour a cloud descended an pushed away all those spirits. And when Adam stood up, his female was attached to his side. And that holy spirit which was in him spread out to this side and that side, and grew here and there, and thus became complete. Thereafter the Holy One, blessed be He, sawed Adam into two, and made the female. And He brought her to Adam in her perfection like a bride to the canopy. When Lilith saw this, she fled. And she is in the cities of the sea, and she is still trying to harm the sons of the world." (Patai81:455) In addition, Lilith also has Talmudic references, not that it is important to this debate. The story of Lilith does present serious Theological issues for Christianity. It does not attempt to explain why man came before the beast. Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; nI will make him a helper fit forOr corresponding to; also verse 20" href="http://www.esvbible.org/search/Genesis+2/#f5-1">5 him.” 19 oNow out of the ground the Lord God had formedOr And out of the ground the Lord God formed" href="http://www.esvbible.org/search/Genesis+2/#f6-1">6 every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and pbrought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. 20 The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for AdamOr the man" href="http://www.esvbible.org/search/Genesis+2/#f7-1">7 there was not found a helper fit for him. Genesis 2:18-20In these verses, it appears to be that The Lord realized that the man was lonely and he created beasts, then birds (wait, I thought that the birds came before beasts; oh well, that is a different debate),, and that there was not a helper fit for him. Notice the exclamation from Adam when he sees his (first or second) wife, Eve:Then the man said, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of man."| Conclusion |We see that my opponent's answer does not work for two reasons: Jewish comentators in the early centuries recognized the contradiction, so they invented Adam's first wife; and It does not refute the fact that in one story man came first and in another beast came first. Thank you. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________[1] http://en.wikipedia.org...