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The plant (or shrub) of the field was not yet but Genesis 1 plainly states the the grass and trees were already there (Gen. 1:11-13). Even though there were no field crops, the earth was watered by a fine mist (fog) that rose out of the earth (Gen. 2:6). 
Gen 1: 11Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. 12The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
Let's agree, by end of day 3 there were all kinds of plants over the surface of the earth.
Gen 2:
4This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.
5Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth a and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground, 6but streams b came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. 7Then the Lord God formed a man c from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
8Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.9The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
There are two issues that you are not addressing here:
1. The 'no plants' state takes us back to day 2 in the 6 day creation account or at least early day 3- because after day 3, there was plant cover all over the earth. The problem with this is that from day 1 to day 3 before the plants, we don't see God creating any garden yet it is a creation because it was not there in the beginning and it came about because of God's work- so it is also creation.
What we don't see is God saying "let there be a garden and it was good".
2. If you say that Eden preparation is what took place on creation day 3, then you'll be in a mess still because day 3 events did not take place on a garden in the East.
The wordings in Gen 2 account mean that the plants had been created but had not grown because it had not rained yet. In creation day 3, there's no such thing, the plants grew by the command of God.
3. Putting the Eden events after day 3 is also catastrophic because after creation day 3, plants were all over.
Overally, there's simply not a day we are told that God created Eden yet He finished all His work and rested by day 7.
Nope. All that was founded upon the waters:
Psalm 24:1 A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell therein. 2For He has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters.
Pro 20: 5The intentions of a man’s heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out.
Proverbs 18:4The words of a man's mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.
Isa 51:16I have put My words in your mouth,and covered you in the shadow of My hand, to establish the heavens, to found the earth, and to say to Zion, “You are My people.”
The heart of a man was not created, it was part of God:
Job 32:7I thought that age should speak, and many years should teach wisdom. 8But there is a spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives him understanding.
Wisdom created: Proverbs 8
Psalm 24:1 A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell therein. 2For He has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters.
Pro 20: 5The intentions of a man’s heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out.
Proverbs 18:4The words of a man's mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.
Isa 51:16I have put My words in your mouth,and covered you in the shadow of My hand, to establish the heavens, to found the earth, and to say to Zion, “You are My people.”
The heart of a man was not created, it was part of God:
Job 32:7I thought that age should speak, and many years should teach wisdom. 8But there is a spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives him understanding.
Wisdom created: Proverbs 8
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Souls are real and Jesus died so that we can have a renewed mind.
Rom 12:1Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. 2Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Thenyou will be able to discern what is the good,pleasing, and perfect will of God.
Eph 4:22to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23to be renewed in the spirit of your minds; 24and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
Jesus' death released the Cherub off his duties of guarding the tree of life/truth so that we can have access. The spirit/mind of Christ lives on through His words so if we believe, we receive the mind of Christ:
John 6:
61Aware that His disciples were grumbling about this teaching, Jesus asked them, “Does this offend you?62Then what will happen if you see the Son of Man ascend to where He was before?
63The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life .64However, there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray Him.)
Rom 8:10But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet the Spirit gives you life because of righteousness.
Rom 12:1Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. 2Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Thenyou will be able to discern what is the good,pleasing, and perfect will of God.
Eph 4:22to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23to be renewed in the spirit of your minds; 24and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
Jesus' death released the Cherub off his duties of guarding the tree of life/truth so that we can have access. The spirit/mind of Christ lives on through His words so if we believe, we receive the mind of Christ:
John 6:
61Aware that His disciples were grumbling about this teaching, Jesus asked them, “Does this offend you?62Then what will happen if you see the Son of Man ascend to where He was before?
63The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life .64However, there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who would betray Him.)
Rom 8:10But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, yet the Spirit gives you life because of righteousness.
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Job is saying that he thought many years means/creates wisdom but he now realizes that wisdom is the spirit/breath of God put in a man that creates the years
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Human flesh is not real, it is said that it came from the earth and we know that the earth and all its work shall pass away. Now, passing away doesn't mean disappearing off this earth because its existence is a collective memory of all humans, it only means the wicked shall pass away. Peter puts it nicely here:
2 Pet 3: 5But they deliberately overlook the fact that long ago by God’s word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water, 6through which the world of that time perished in the flood. 7And by that same word, the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
According to Peter, we are currently living in the new heavens and new earth as compared to the one that was destroyed at Noah's time. As far as i know, only the people were destroyed then meaning that the old world perished with them, the new world existed in Noah's people's mind until today when sin has increased and judgement will again wipe the wicked. The remnants will be a new world. The world is the people because the world is in their mind.
2 Pet 3: 5But they deliberately overlook the fact that long ago by God’s word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water, 6through which the world of that time perished in the flood. 7And by that same word, the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
According to Peter, we are currently living in the new heavens and new earth as compared to the one that was destroyed at Noah's time. As far as i know, only the people were destroyed then meaning that the old world perished with them, the new world existed in Noah's people's mind until today when sin has increased and judgement will again wipe the wicked. The remnants will be a new world. The world is the people because the world is in their mind.
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I keep telling you the shrub, sometimes rendered plant or bush is a field (crop): a plant related to the mist watering them. I think the Revised Version plainly states it:
(RV) Gen. 2:5, 6 "And no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground; but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground."
Where, oh where did you ever come up with this? So we existed from eternity like God? Hahahaha...
(RV) Gen. 2:5, 6 "And no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground; but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground."
Where, oh where did you ever come up with this? So we existed from eternity like God? Hahahaha...
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