Critics have often asked me why Genesis 1 and 2 seem to repeat, and why a few details look like they don’t line up. Plants show up on day three in the first chapter, then Genesis 2 describes a time before there were plants of the field. Some readers take that as two separate creation stories stitched together. Dr. Daniel Kim teaches Old Testament at Talbot, and he starts somewhere I didn’t expect. Before you get to the mechanics, he says, ask what Genesis is doing. In a world where every culture had a pantheon and every god had a job, Genesis 1 makes one claim over and over: there is one God, he is all powerful, and everything you see came from him.

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