What if Genesis 2 came first?

Which creation account came first? What is your creation story? What is our purpose in being here? How should we relate to God, to one another, and to the rest of creation? 

"What if Genesis 2 came first?" is based on Genesis 2:4b-9.

In the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no vegetation of the field had yet sprung up—for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no one to till the ground, but a stream would rise from the earth and water the whole face of the ground— then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. Out of the ground the LORD God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food, the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Works Referenced

Brueggemann, Walter. Genesis. (Interpretation: a Bible commentary for teaching and preaching). Atlanta, Georgia: John Knox Press, 1982. 

De La Torre, Miguel A. Genesis. BELIEF: A Theological Commentary on the Bible). Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press, 2011. Kindle edition. 

Hiebert, Theodore. “Genesis.” In The Oxford Handbook of The Bible and Ecology, edited by Hilary Marlow and Mark Harris. New York City: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Robinson, Kim Stanley. The Ministry for the Future. United States: Orbit, 2020.

U.S. Energy Information Administration. “Federal Financial Interventions and Subsidies in Energy in Fiscal Years 2016-2022.” August 1, 2023. https://www.eia.gov/analysis/requests/subsidy/

USAFacts Team. “Federal farm subsidies: What the data says.” USAFACTS. October 5, 2023. https://usafacts.org/articles/federal-farm-subsidies-what-data-says/

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