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Look, nobody sat down and wrote the Bible. It is collection of stories, accounts documents, letters and records that accumulated over hundreds of years. Some of these pieces existed verbally for many years before they were written down. They were translated and re-translated. And there are different versions of every book in the Bible.
In fact, what you see in the Bible is basically a “best guess” at what Christianity’s principle documents should be.
When Constantine and friends decided what version of Genesis to use, they were looking at hundreds of creation stories. Each was accepted by a group of Christians (and/or Jews) already. They couldn’t ALL be right. So they did the best they could.
Genesis Ch 1 and Gen Ch2 contradict each other, making a literal translation difficult at best.
Christianity is a philosophically messy religion. If you want something more black and white, turn to the Book of Mormon. It was originally written in English, and there aren’t too many different versions of it.
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