How God Made Us

“The LORD God formed the man [adam, Hebrew] from the dust of the ground [adamah, Hebrew].”
—Genesis 2:7.

The Creator could have made the first man from some celestial or supernatural substance, but He didn’t. He fashioned Adam from “the dust of the ground.” After God had combined the desired elements of earth to form Adam’s brain, bones, and body, His creative energy gave life to the inert form. It took something more to transform that perfect body into a living soul—and that something more was “the breath of life.”

“The LORD God formed the man from the DUST OF THE GROUND and breathed into his nostrils THE BREATH OF LIFE, and the man became A LIVING BEING [SOUL].”
—Genesis 2:7.