>Genesis 2:7 is teaching a miracle. "Dust" means dust (as any literalist ought
>to agree). In fact, nowhere does the Bible use "dust" to mean anything else.
Oops! What about Genesis 3:19? Here God refers to Adam, obviously a living
being, as "dust". I do agree with you that Gen 2:7 is teaching a miracle.
The imparting of God's spirit to a material being is a miracle whether the
being was created from inanimate matter or from previously living matter.
And I submit it's a more significant miracle.
>For instance, when God through Aaron caused the "dust" to become "lice," it
>was not a fixing up of something inanimate but lice-like. It was a miraculous
>transformation of something unlike anything living, into lots of little living
>things!
>
No problem. But don't compare Adam to lice :-).
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