From The Dust
God formed man
From the dust of the earth
Breathed into him the breath of life
Man became a human being.
Genesis 2:7
Humanity did not spring fully formed from the head of Zeus like Athena or fall from the sky like one of the gods of Greek mythology. Humanity did not have a pre-existent state in the non-spatial, non-temporal realm of perfect forms as Plato imagined. Humanity did not come from somewhere other than the earth. Humanity’s only home has been the spinning blue orb third from the sun. If this world is not our home (as the Gnostics claimed) we are homeless.
Humanity was formed.
Formed by God.
Formed from the earth.
All living things share common ancestry
The dust of the earth.
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