It's not so much that they're opposing in that they counter each other, it's just that from a literary perspective, there are two separate creation events in th

It's not so much that they're opposing in that they counter each other, it's just that from a literary perspective, there are two separate creation events in the first two books. Genesis 1 starts with a creation story: > In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth And after the entire creation of the world, Genesis 2 begins and seems to have forgotten the world was already created: > This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created There are a number of examples like this that make scholars believe the books were collected from different belief systems and then arranged together - sort of like a best-of compilation of existing religions.