Mark 10:6

[dreamer_easy]

I have a question (for the knowledgeable this time, thank you, rather than for the peanut gallery :-) about this verse:

But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. (KJV)

(Did you see what I did there?)

The context is Jesus' teaching on divorce, but I was wondering if this reference to Genesis is the one synaesthete7 mentioned a while back, and if so, if it's a paraphrase of Chapter 1. (I'm curious about how Biblical literalists reconcile Chapters 1 and 2 - again, another issue which must have engaged great minds for centuries.)

Comments

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Nothing to reconcile, as far as I've ever been able to see (and I remember being truly boggled when I first heard someone say the two chapters contradicted/were "obviously" different accounts). Chapter one is a broad, sequential view of creation, an overview or outline, if you like; chapter two focuses specifically on the creation of man and woman and how it came about, putting man at the centre of the narrative where he will remain for the rest of the book. Ch. 1 is chronological in nature, ch. 2 is thematic.

(And yes, that is the reference I meant. :)