Was Adam the First Man Created?
What does the Bible really say?
Genesis Chapter 2
The second chapter of Genesis gives a different account of creation. It begins with God resting on the seventh day. Then in Chapter 2 verses 4 through 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 herb of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to till the ground; but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground—then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and 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. And 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.”
Some believe that this is a special creation account. Accordingly, there were men and women living from the first chapter of Genesis and their descendants would be different than the descendants of Adam.
God gives the famous command “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die,” Chapter 2 verses 16-17.
“Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him,” verses 18-19. Then God made animals and birds and brought them to the man to name in verses 19-20.
A suitable helper for the man was not found. “So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh; and the rib which the Lord God had taken from the Man he made into a woman and brought her to the man,” verses 21-22.
Now we have the second creation account with a different order. Man was made before trees and animals.
“And the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed,” verse 25.