Man & woman created on 6th day or later?

[DearJudy,OurLord]

Hello  I’m trying to understand genesis 1:27 where it says that God so created mankind in his own image in the image of God, he created them male and female, who created them

then genesis 1:31 says God saw all that he had made, and it was very good and there was evening, and that was morning the sixth day.

Then, in the account of Adam and Eve, in chapter 2, it looks like he created man alone to tend the garden but if Adam was naming the animals and tending the garden, how can that all be done in one day and then God made the woman.
 

Can someone explain ?

[FJK]

Understand Genesis 1:1.

[Who me]

19 minutes ago, DearJudy,OurLord said:

Then, in the account of Adam and Eve, in chapter 2, it looks like he created man alone to tend the garden but if Adam was naming the animals and tending the garden, how can that all be done in one day and then God made the woman.
 

In a garden just created how much work would need to be done?

It says in gen 2:19 that God brought all the animals to Adam to name.

How long would it take to name the ancestor of the cows, pigs, deer, dogs and birds etc?

Why do you suppose it could not be done in one day.

[AdHoc]

2 hours ago, DearJudy,OurLord said:

Hello  I’m trying to understand genesis 1:27 where it says that God so created mankind in his own image in the image of God, he created them male and female, who created them

then genesis 1:31 says God saw all that he had made, and it was very good and there was evening, and that was morning the sixth day.

Then, in the account of Adam and Eve, in chapter 2, it looks like he created man alone to tend the garden but if Adam was naming the animals and tending the garden, how can that all be done in one day and then God made the woman.
 

Can someone explain ?

I like analytical thinking like yours.

The answer is; God did not have to make Eve on the sixth day. Because she was IN Adam when he was created, God could say that He created THEM  and He could say MALE & FEMALE. We see this in Ephesians 2:6:

 6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:

You and I were not raised "together" with Christ. Our resurrection is still future (1st Cor.15:23). But IN Christ we were. Just the same as you where one of the Wheat corns that came out of His death in John 12:24.

Now notice that God set the times of the first six days by "the evening and the morning" - sunset to sunset. But He pointedly did NOT do that for the Sabbath. Rather he set the limit of the Sabbath by the length of Adam's life - 1,000 years. The threat to Adam was the "IN WHICH" you eat ... you will die. Expositors have ASSUMED that the Sabbath was 24 hours, but that is a private interpretation. It is not allowed (2nd Pet 1:20). You have to study all the Sabbaths in the bible, and when you do, in Hebrews 3 and 4 you will find that God defined the Sabbath as sometime longer than Israel occupied the Good Land before being thrown out. It was about 900 years. In doing this in Hebrews, God promised a future "REST" that would satisfy Him. The Sabbath of Genesis and of Hebrews had the following in common. God has His man in place to subdue and rule, but in both cases he fell short of a "day". But in the coming 1,000 year reign of the Second Adam (Christ), God has His Man (Jesus) in position on earth to subdue and rule. And this Man will not fail.

Thus, if all three Sabbaths were supposed to be 1,000 years, and Adam died at 930 years, that gave him nearly 70 years for your calculation - for naming the animals and bringing Eve forth. The same is seen in 2nd Peter 3:8–10

8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

Verse 8 For God (not men) a day "is as" a thousand years and visa versa.
Verse 9 concerns His Second Coming.
Verse 10 is still in the "day" that He comes, but ALSO in which He also lets heaven and earth pass. But from Revelation Chapter 20 we know that from His Second Coming until heaven and earth pass, is 1,000 years. Here, He jumps a whole thousand years in His prophecy, like Joel's prophecy. Joel jumps 2,000 years in Joel 2:28-32. Hosea 6:2 gives 2 days, but Israel's chastisement is 2,000 years.

[DearJudy,OurLord]

4 hours ago, AdHoc said:

I like analytical thinking like yours.

🤩 thank you 🙏 

[DearJudy,OurLord]

4 hours ago, AdHoc said:

Thus, if all three Sabbaths were supposed to be 1,000 years, and Adam died at 930 years, that gave him nearly 70 years for your calculation - for naming the animals and bringing Eve forth.

 

4 hours ago, AdHoc said:

Rather he set the limit of the Sabbath by the length of Adam's life - 1,000 years. The threat to Adam was the "IN WHICH" you eat

How do you get that a sabbath is 1000 years? From 2 Peter 3?

I just went through Genesis 2 again and would you say that’s it’s more of a detailed narration of what happened during the 6th day and on?

Edited September 30, 2023 by DearJudy,OurLord

[DearJudy,OurLord]

7 hours ago, Who me said:

In a garden just created how much work would need to be done?

It says in gen 2:19 that God brought all the animals to Adam to name.

How long would it take to name the ancestor of the cows, pigs, deer, dogs and birds etc?

Why do you suppose it could not be done in one day.

Makes sense. My mind was thinking in terms of the magnitude of animals we have now instead of just the “kind” then. 
 

[Buzzard3]

On 9/30/2023 at 4:34 AM, DearJudy,OurLord said:

Can someone explain ?

Not every detail in Genesis accounts of creation is meant to be taken literally.  The accounts are a mixture of fact and figurative language.

[AdHoc]

On 9/30/2023 at 4:17 AM, DearJudy,OurLord said:

 

How do you get that a sabbath is 1000 years? From 2 Peter 3?

I just went through Genesis 2 again and would you say that’s it’s more of a detailed narration of what happened during the 6th day and on?

According to 2nd Peter 1:20 we may not interpret the Bible "privately". That means that we must use either nature (for it shows the things of God - Rom.1:20), or we must use the Bible. The threat against Adam was "IN the day you eat you will surely die ...". That day is not defined by "the evening and the morning". So we must find the length of the first Sabbath. If God had defined the first Sabbath, it would be easy. But He left out the length of the seventh day. So we must find out how long it is. But ... no private interpretation. So we study al the "days" of the Bible. If we do that, we come up with FIVE different days. They are;
1. The period of sunlight - sunrise to sunset
2. The 24-hour day - the evening and the morning
3. An event - like the "day of the Lord"
4. In prophecy and day is a year - like Daniel's seventy sevens
5 A days " is like" 1,000 years to God

Now, God did not define the seventh day, but He gave a hint. Adam died (with)IN it. And Adam lived 930 years. Which "day" did Adam die in if we only use the Bible to discover it? Number 5 of course. So the first "REST" should have been 1,000 years. But God was forced to work. The next "REST" that God designed was Israel entering and occupying Canaan with God's Law. But before 900 years were up, Israel were ejected and God had to work (Jn.5:17). So BOTH Sabbath RESTS were unfulfilled. But God has reserved another REST at a future time when His MAN is in place and will not fail. This is when Jesus will be King of the whole earth - the Millennium.

[RV_Wizard]

The moment Adam ate from the fruit his death was assured.  Satan was the first to exploit this wording when he told Eve that on the day they ate from the fruit they would not die.  However, because of that sin death was assured.  Beyond that, sickness and death came to all living things and death was introduced to the world.  The world became a sinful and cursed place because of man's rebellion to God's word.  No, the sixth day did not last 1,000 years.  Adam was placed in the garden of Eden where he named the animals.  It wasn't until he had named them that he realized he was alone; the only one of his kind.  Then God made Eve from Adam's rib.  There is no time reference for this.  It may have taken days, weeks, months or years.  Likewise, we aren't told how long Adam and Eve were in the garden.  Time at that point was meaningless because, since there was no death, nothing had an expiration date.  Likewise, when we get to Heaven, there will no no sin, no death, and no expiration date.