Were humans created before the animals? (Catholic perspective)
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I'm going to ignore the textual part of this question because I'm not a Hebrew expert and this aspect of the question is probably better suited to Biblical Hermeneutics. Whichever tense is used in English is an artefact of translation, and different translations treat the Hebrew differently. It does seem that most "Catholic" translations do not use had formed, and retain the distinction and apparent anomaly between Genesis 1 and Genesis 2.
Turning to the aspect of the question which concerns Catholic doctrine, there is nothing in the current Catechism of the Catholic Church which demands that the Creation story be taken as literal truth or as myth, or whether Genesis 1 is more or less valid than Genesis 2. Both are in the Bible and both are inspired. The order of creation is ultimately unimportant: what is important is that God created the world at all. There's too much to quote here but one seminal paragraph is
- Among all the Scriptural texts about creation, the first three chapters of Genesis occupy a unique place. From a literary standpoint these texts may have had diverse sources. The inspired authors have placed them at the beginning of Scripture to express in their solemn language the truths of creation — its origin and its end in God, its order and goodness, the vocation of man, and finally the drama of sin and the hope of salvation. Read in the light of Christ, within the unity of Sacred Scripture and in the living Tradition of the Church, these texts remain the principal source of catechesis on the mysteries of the "beginning": creation, fall, and promise of salvation.
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Read on to Genesis 2 : 20-23 and you will understand that Gen 2:18 is in fact setting the stage for narrating the creation of Eve, the perfect life-companion for Adam. The interlude of Adam's `screening' of the animals and birds to look for a companion , is only meant to reinforce the design of Creation meant for mankind.
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