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In Genesis 1:26-31, God creates men and women in his image then blesses them, then tells them to be fruitful and multiply and populate the Earth. That ends the sixth day, or epoch, of creation. Then God rests during the seventh day. Then on day eight (Gen 2:7) God creates Adam from the clay and then later creates Eve (Gen 2:21-22).
Almost all preachers claim that Genesis 2 is just a recap of Genesis 1 and that Adam was the first man and that there were no people before Adam (preadamites).
If this is true, how can the following questions be answered?
>If Genesis 2 is just a recap of Genesis 1, why does it not mention the first four days of creation? 4/7ths of the "recap" is missing
>Why do the events in Genesis 2 follow a different order to those in Genesis 1?
>When Cain murders Abel he is exiled and is afraid that the people he meets will kill him. Who is he afraid of, if only three people exist (Adam, Eve and Cain)?
>While in exile, Cain meets a woman and has a son called Enoch. Where did this woman come from?
>Cain then builds an entire city (Gen 4:16-17) and names it Enoch. If the only people alive are Adam, Eve, Cain, the mysterious woman and Enoch, why would he build an entire city?
>Why does Gen 5 list Noah's geneology, to prove that he was a direct descendant of Adam, and then say (Gen 6:9) that Noah was "perfect in his generations"?
Is there any objection to the preadamite interpretation of Genesis that doesn't boil down to "it can't be true because racisms" or "me special snowflake" or "the bible hurt me feel feels"
