re: #200 Anymouse 🌹

Genesis 1 has men and women created at the same time, and presumably equal.

(NIV)

Genesis 2-3 has the longer “Eve came from Adam’s rib” story (also, Eve was only named after the so-called “fall”).

Mediæval art, literature, and church officials stressed the second story (Genesis 2-3) and largely ignores the first story (Genesis 1).

Yes, those verses gave me difficulty. Then, I changed my thinking and decided it made sense provided I attributed ch 1 to Man’s creation before Adam and Eve. This allowed me to justify Cain’s wife as coming from this earlier creation.
There was more to the Ch 2 creation as this was God’s man. It is the man God breathed life into and became a living soul. Now the remaining dilemma is: Was the Garden of Eden also a place of protection from animals and/or possibly from this earlier creation of man.