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Originally Posted by geologist
Genesis 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.
In the above verse the Bible says that the Lord God brought forth both the sea creatures and birds (fowl) from the waters.
This is reaffirmed in the following verse:
Genesis 1:21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
But this verse presents an apparent contradiction:
Genesis 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.
This verse says that the Lord God brought forth the fowl from the ground, not the waters.
Why is this not a contradiction?
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Because the verses, as many in the Bible, compliment each other rather than contradict. Believing the Scriptures means we learn that God suspends the elements we are made of in water in order to have form and movement and function. Human beings are 88 percent water, without this water we are a pile of about 4 pounds of chemical dust. If we don't believe the Scriptures it's going to contradict because we want it to contradict. A phone book or newspaper can contradict if we don't believe it, in many newspaper's cases they often do
Thus if we believe what He has written us then we learn He made living creatures from water and the chemical elements of the "dirt".
Another common "contradiction" is found here and is solved merely by reading the text and believing it:
Nu 25:9 And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
1Co 10:8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
How many died in this plague?
24,000 total, Paul gives us how many days it lasted. 23,000 died "...in one day...", the first day, when the people repented only 1,000 died the second, giving the total of 24,000.
There are no contradictions in the word of God, the contradictions are in us.
Grace and peace
Tony