Genesis 2:7 “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.”
We have seen thus far that mankind is made up of two primary parts, i.e. an outward man and an inward man. As already mentioned, our outward man is our physical body. And so in this section we want to discuss how God creates the body of man, i.e. where our bodies come from. In the book of Genesis quoted above we have the account of God’s creation of the first man, Adam. In this passage we can see that the spirit of man came from the breath or word of God, but we see that God made Adam’s body from the dust of the earth. In other words, God used the existing material that He had already created, i.e. the dust of the earth, to form (create) the body of man.
1 Corinthians 15:47-49 “The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven. (48) As was the man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; and as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly. (49) And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man.”
God uses the same material to form our bodies today that He used when He formed Adam’s body, i.e. from the dust of the earth, for the above quoted passage of scripture teaches us that our bodies are still made of dust. When God forms our bodies today however, He doesn’t go to the earth and form a new body for us. He uses the sperm and egg that we have inherited from our parents, which they in turn inherited from their parents all the way back to Adam. And so we can see that man’s body comes from Adam.
Acts 17:26 “And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings.”
In the above quoted passage of scripture the Holy Spirit reveals to us that from the blood of Adam, God has made the bodies of every person that has ever been born into the earth, and God will continue to do so until the end of the age. And so we have clearly established in this section that our bodies are inherited from the original body of Adam.
Michael E.B. Maher
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