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Ethnicity In The Bible
Ethnicity The two creation stories in the Bible have caused a lot of questions. I never looked at the Bible and realized these mythical stories of the creation of the world. The creation stories (Genesis 1-2.4a and Genesis 2.4b-25) have been the same to me, and I believed like many other people the two stories emphasize what God created. In Permission Granted: Take the Bible Into Your Own Hands by Jenifer Bird it is well explained the differences of when and why humankind were created in these creation accounts and the purposes to the world. She wrote in her book “the first story male and female humans are created simultaneously, both ‘in God’s Image.’ But in second, a single human being is formed first, then all the animals, then the companion
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