What the Bible says about God creating man in His own image, pt. 3

MAN WAS CREATED BY GOD

The creation of man by God was based upon the deliberate counsel of God, “…Let Us make man…”. Man was no afterthought, but rather deliberate forethought on the part of the Godhead. Creation was incomplete without the man. All that God created up to that point was pronounced as “good.” Upon the creation of the man, God pronounced that everything he had made, including the man, was “very good” (Genesis 1:31).

Genesis 2:7 details how God created man, “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.” The following passages teach that God created man from the dust of the earth. Psalms 103:13-14 declares, “As a father pities his children, So the LORD pities those who fear Him. For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust.” Isaiah 29:16 declares, “Surely you have things turned around! Shall the potter be esteemed as the clay; For shall the thing made say of him who made it, ‘He did not make me’? Or shall the thing formed say of him who formed it, ‘He has no understanding?’” Romans 9:20-21 declares, “But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, ‘Why have you made me like this?’ Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?” Like a potter who makes his clay from the dust of the earth, God fashioned and formed man from the dust of the earth.

And just as man was created by God from the dust, he shall return to the dust from which he was made, "In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return," Genesis 3:19.

There is not one passage in the whole of scripture that would indicate that man evolved from sub-human, non-human, or pre-human life forms. Additionally, the appearance of man did not involve any evolutionary process. The creation of man was direct; there was no pre-human life form in-between the animals and man as he is today. The creation of man was a special act of creation as his creation was markedly different from all other organic life forms. The creation of man was immediate as it did not involve a process; God created man and man was. The creation of man was direct, specific, and immediate.

The scriptures dispel the notion of theistic evolution as well since they declare that God created man on a specific day, Deuteronomy 4:32, “…since the day that God created man on the earth…” To teach that the creation of man was the result of God breathing life into some non-human life form that evolved into what we see today as man is to teach evolution and not creation.