Two Different Genesis Creation Stories????

I met with some speakers from MAC (Missouri Association of Creationists) tonight at St. Louis Bread Company (owned by Panera Bread). We are going to be offering our services to speak in schools and our regular MAC meetings which is the second Monday of every month. I was impressed with the five men who came. They all have a burden to share the Bible's view of creation to a ungodly world.

Marv brought up how the History Channel was showing recently the bias that Genesis contains two creation accounts. Genesis Chapter One and Chapter Two. More specifically the first account ends in 2:3 and the second account begins in 2:4. These two accounts are complementary. Critics of biblical creation try to make an issue that Genesis creation narrative is fuzzy because of these two accounts. Lets look at how Jesus showed these two accounts were one in the same:

First Account

And God made man, according to the image of God he made him, male and female he made them.Genesis 1:27

Second Account

And Adam said: "This is now bone of my bones And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man.” Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. Genesis 2:23-24

In the New Testament, Jesus referred back to each Genesis account and showed that they were one in the same. Regarding the issue of Divorce Jesus said:

. . ."Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning 'made them male and female,' and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.” Matthew 19:4-6. NKJV.

Genesis chapters one and two are not only complementary but they are meant to be more than allegory. Jesus could have cleared the air if Genesis was meant to teach evolutionary processes, but he did not. Everyone in Jesus' time knew that Genesis spoke of miraculous creations of inorganic and organic material. You and I are a product of that special creation of humanity. Jesus tells us so.