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30 101 Myths of the Bible
While this passage tells us precisely when this man appeared, most people who
read it ignore the meaning of the text. This man appeared “in the day that the LORD God
made the earth and the heavens” and before there was any vegetation on the earth. When
exactly was that?
In the present version of Genesis, this occurred sometime on the third day of Creation.
According to Genesis 1:6–13, God created the heavens on the second day and the
earth and vegetation on the third day. This places the creation of Adam in the middle of
the third day, after the creation of heaven and earth and before vegetation. (Later, in the
discussion of Myth #14, we will see that heaven was originally created on the second day,
and that is the day that Adam appeared.) So, if Adam first appeared on the third (or second)
day of Creation, he therefore cannot be the man created on the sixth day.
But what about Eve? After the creation of Adam, the story shifts to events in the
Garden of Eden. We learn about the planting of trees, especially the Trees of Knowledge
of Good and Evil and The Tree of Life, and we learn some geographical details
about the Garden, but nothing yet about a woman. Then:
And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make
him an help meet for him. 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. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air,
and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for
him. (Gen. 2:18–19)
The beasts and birds didn’t end Adam’s loneliness. The man was still lonely. Man
needed another“help meet” and God set about to remedy the situation.
And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he
took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the
LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the
man. (Gen. 2:21–22)
In the earlier account, God created the man and woman simultaneously on the
sixth day, both after the appearance of vegetation and animals. But in the story of