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God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
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Historical claims about the natural world, weighed against the scientific record.
The scientific record: Antibiotic resistance, viral evolution, and ecological limits constrain human control over living organisms. (WHO)
Questions where the Bible appears to say two different things, with the passages on each side set together.
Genesis 1:25-27 has God creating the animals first and then creating humans, male and female, on the same day. Genesis 2:18-19 reverses this: the man is formed first, then God forms the animals to see if any of them would be a suitable helper for him.
Critical scholarship: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction.
Parallel accounts (distinct sources)
The proposed answers and sources for each reading are on the question page.
Deuteronomy, Isaiah, and New Testament passages repeatedly assert strict monotheism, with YHWH alone and no other gods beside him. Genesis 1:26, 3:22, and 11:7 have God using first-person plural ('let us make,' 'one of us') and Psalm 82 has God judging in the assembly of gods.
Critical scholarship: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction.
Theology
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Genesis 1:25-27 places the creation of humans (male and female, simultaneously, in the image of God) after the animals as the climax of a structured six-day sequence. Genesis 2:18-22 has the man formed first and alone, animals then formed as a failed attempt to find him a helper, and the woman finally built from his rib.
Critical scholarship: Widely regarded as a genuine contradiction.
Parallel accounts (distinct sources)
The proposed answers and sources for each reading are on the question page.
Each section sets the viewpoints side by side; you weigh the evidence. Here, "critical scholarship" means academic study, not a value judgment. How this is built →
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"Genesis 1:26 — Scripture Analysis" GEBible, https://gebible.app/analysis/verse/genesis/1/26?version=WEB (retrieved 26 August 2026).