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QUESTION: Why are there different accounts of creation?

ANSWER: Genesis 1:1 through Genesis 2:3 is a detailed account of creation, in the order of creation. In Genesis, the second chapter, there is no intent to present another complete account of creation, nor to follow the actual sequence of creation. Moses is only relating certain creation events in the order necessary to discuss properly that which follows, i.e., the fall of man!


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