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Q17: How did God create man?
A17: After God had made all other creatures, he created man male and female;[1] formed the body of the man of the dust of the ground,[2] and the woman of the rib of the man,[3] endued them with living, reasonable, and immortal souls;[4] made them after his own image,[5] in knowledge,[6] righteousness,and holiness;[7] having the law of God written in their hearts,[8] and power to fulfil it,[9] and dominion over the creatures;[10] yet subject to fall.[11]
  1. (Gen 1:27) God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

  2. (Gen 2:7) Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

  3. (Gen 2:22) The LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.

  4. (Gen 2:7) Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

    (Job 35:11) Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth And makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?'

    (Ecc 12:7) then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

    (Mat 10:28) "Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

    (Luk 23:43) And He said to him, "Truly I say to you, today you shall be with Me in Paradise."

  5. (Gen 1:27) God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

  6. (Col 3:10) and have put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him--

  7. (Eph 4:24) and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.

  8. (Rom 2:14-15) For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves, in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them,

  9. (Ecc 7:29) "Behold, I have found only this, that God made men upright, but they have sought out many devices."

  10. (Gen 1:28) God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

  11. (Gen 3:6) When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.

    (Ecc 7:29) "Behold, I have found only this, that God made men upright, but they have sought out many devices."

Scripture quotations taken from the NASB.