Genesis chapter 1 and chapter 2 do not contradict each other,for chapter 1 it tells of the creation and chapter 2 tells of Eve coming from Adam,but I believe there could of been a creation before Adam and Eve.
1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
3And God said, Let there be light: and there was light(Genesis 1:1-3).
The earth was without form,and void,and God said let there be light.
This is the account in Genesis chapter 1 of how the earth was perceived when God said let there be light.
22For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
23I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
24I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
25I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.
26I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.
27For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end(Jeremiah 4:22-27).
God says that His children Israel are wise to do evil,but to do good they have no understanding,and then describes the account in Genesis that the earth was without form,and void,and then describes that account that there was no man,and all the birds of heaven were fled.
I believe that there were people before Adam and Eve and God went against them and warning Israel that they will suffer the same fate because of their evil doing.
The land will be desolate but they will be brought back to their land after a period of time and God will not make a full end of them.
When Satan got kicked out of heaven there was probably a creation on earth of man and animals and Satan came down and disrupted that creation,and that is why Satan was in the garden as a serpent when God created Adam and Eve.
3And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
4There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
5And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart(Genesis 6:3-6).
We see that the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men,and they bare children to them,the same became mighty men which were of old,men of reknown.
These men were unlike any type of men that have been before them to the time of Adam and Eve.
It sounds like they bare children who were like the people that were before Adam and Eve and Satan and the fallen angels disrupted them and caused them to be continuously evil and God went against them and started over with Adam and Eve and that is why Satan was in the garden because he was disrupted the creation before Adam and Eve.
26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth(Genesis 1:26-28).
God told Adam and Eve to replenish the earth which means to replace what has already been there but is not there now.You cannot replenish water unless you had water and ran out of it,so for Adam and Eve to replenish the world there would of had to be people there first before Adam and Eve that perished for Adam and Eve to replenish the earth with people.
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