Book Of Genesis

The first two chapters of the Book of Genesis open with the story of how the world had been built. However, these two chapters have told two different stories. The first story, which explains the creation of the whole world, starts in Chapter 1 up to Chapter 2:3. It talks about God first created the earth and heavens, then he created the light, sky, land, water, vegetation, and different living creatures, include human beings, in six days. And he rested on the seventh day from all the work that he had finished. From Chapter 2:4, the second story, which is about the formation of the human world, begins. It narrates how the LORD God formed man and woman, and places for them to live and work. I’ve found out that there are two different narrators in the first two chapters. The ‘God’ in Genesis 1 referred to Elohim, and the ‘LORD God’ in Genesis 2 referred to Yahweh, according to the course notes. However, only one God exists in the Bible. Hence, these two accounts must be referred to the same God. In this discussion, …show more content…
In Chapter 1, humans were made in God’s figure, and had dominion over all the living creatures created by God on the earth (Genesis 1:26). This provides a respectable position for humans. However, in Chapter 2, it wrote, ‘And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it’ (Genesis 2:15). This presents that humans were just servants who had to work in the garden for LORD God. In my opinion, two different names for God are used to show different emphasis in the story. God, which had a powerful figure, had been used in the context of creating the universe and all creatures. The LORD God had been used when he involved with humanity. Therefore, these two separate narrators in Genesis 1 and 2 are employed to reflect different characteristics and views of the one God. And the author uses these names to distinguish and make emphasis on different