Originally posted by lee_merrill
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- Job 10:8-10: Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely. Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust? Did you not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?
- The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life. Reply to me, if you can; set your arguments in order before me and take your stand! Look, I am just like you in relation to God; I too have been molded from clay.
- Psalm 103:14: For he knows what we are made of; he realizes we are made of clay.
- For the fate of humans and the fate of animals are the same: As one dies, so dies the other; both have the same breath. There is no advantage for humans over animals, for both are fleeting. Both go to the same place, both come from the dust, and to dust both return.
- Isa. 64:8: Yet, LORD, you are our father. We are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the product of your labor. [cf. Isa. 43:7]
- The first man is from the earth, made of dust; the second man is from heaven. Like the one made of dust, so too are those made of dust, and like the one from heaven, so too those who are heavenly. And just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, let us also bear the image of the man of heaven. [cf. Eph 4:24]
Like Job or David or anyone else, Adam was a clay vessel formed by the hands of the Potter himself, made from the dust in the image of God. So if we are all made from dust/clay, shaped by God and given the breath of the Almighty then this might suggest a literal reading of Adam being made this way might not be the way to go.
AFAICT we all are the result of having been given birth to by our mothers (not including "test tube babies" who still come from their genetic material). Yet various passages describe us, like Adam, of having been constructed or shaped out of dust/clay. But being we were created by being born from our parents and not literally constructed out of dust/clay this might suggest that the same may have been true for Adam.
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