The Bible provides two accounts of the creation of man, why the second more detailed account?

What if I said," I went to Home Dept to get the stuff I needed to refurbish my porch.Then I went to lunch and went home and got to work.

Ok,let me tell you what happened when I was there! I got my flat cart and put 7 2x4s on it three sheets of dry-wall,taping supplies and a new 6 " taping knife.This guy was waliking quickly and slipped on some oil that spilled.He wasn't hurt but man was that funny!I checked out and went to Jack InThe Box and grabbed a Chibata sandwich....."

Get it?

I don't believe that there are two creation accounts of man. I believe the inspired writer was just giving details in the second account. Adam and Eve were the very first man and woman to exist on earth.

Both accounts are designed to show the primacy of man in creation. One is a top down view, beginning with man, the other is bottom up ending with man. Neither are designed to be a scientific account, but both are true when the meaning is discerned as the author intended.

Cheers :-)

There are two versions because there are two authors. The Pentateuch is given credit as being written by Moses, when in actuality it was written hundreds of years after his death by several authors.

"The Hypothesis asserts that the author of the creation story seen in the first verses of the Bible was an anonymous 6th Century BCE writer or group of writers of the priestly tradition (often referred to as "P")."

Chapter one is simply a chronological account of Creation and number two is the anthropological account. Don't really know why that's so complicated.

The Bible is not one book, it is 66 books, as I recall. Different authors wrote different accounts of various events. By the time they were collected into a single Bible, the different books already had a history of their own, and the compilers did not want to drop anything, only to find out later they needed it. So, for example, you have four gospels, not one.

good for you - you noticed! the bible was put together from several different sources and versions and stories that were around at the time. biblical scholars, and such, study the bible from several different angles - two of which are 'form criticism' and 'redaction criticism.' there is much about this to be found in books, and on the net.

The ancient Hebrew scribes combined the two different mythologies available to them into one story. They just left them the way they were and interwove the two myths copying the originals at the points they seem to fit the best.

The first account,which happens on the 6th day,is when God created the races.(where do you think all the different races came from?).On the eighth day,God saw that He needed someone to tend the garden,so He then created Adam.

The "male and female created he them" referred to Adam and Lilith, not Adam and Eve. Lilith was Adam's first wife, created the same time he was. She didn't want to be subservient to Adam, so she was banished from Eden and became a demon.