Question

Give five reasons why biblical creation story has two accounts of the same event

Answer 1

• The two accounts were not written in a single sitting but different times.
• The accounts are from different sources, Yahwist and Priestly.
• They were written in different places e.g. Yahwist was composed in Judah.
• One account is as a result of research at the other i.e. second one is trying to explain the first one.
• Accounts were written by different authors.
• The authors were inspired by God and therefore they wrote what God revealed to them.