Westminster Larger Catechism · Question 17

How did God create man?

Scripture proofs King James Version

• Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
• 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 soul.
• Genesis 2:22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
• 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 soul.
• Job 35:11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
• Ecclesiastes 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
• Matthew 10:28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
• Luke 23:43 And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.
• Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
• Colossians 3:10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him.
• Ephesians 4:24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
• Romans 2:14-15 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another.
• Ecclesiastes 7:29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
• Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
• Genesis 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
• Ecclesiastes 7:29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.