We live in a changing world that is full of questions,

and the answers must come from the unchanging truth of God's Word.

Today we look into Scripture with Scott Paul to discover what the Bible says.

Ask the Lord to speak to you and to give you truth to share with others.

And God said, let us make man in our image. What a privilege. What a mind-boggling truth that we,

humanity were made in the image of our creator. That is found in Genesis chapter one. And in

Genesis chapter number 2,

God expounds upon that. He gives even more detail to his creative work. The Bible says in

Genesis chapter 2, verse number 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.

If you want to know how man is different than the animals, here's how.

He was, first of all, the only part of the creation that was literally shaped by the hand of God.

We preachers get pretty artistic at times, and we say God flung the stars into space, and he carved out the rivers with his finger, but actually that's not what he did.

Now, when you read Genesis 1 and 2, you find that God just spoke. That's the power of the Word of God. He just said light, and there was light, and it was very good.

So God spoke all of the created world into existence,

but with man, this was the first record that we have

that God of his own hands formed man.

He took the dust of the ground and he shaped him.

Why would he do that?

I think it's a very beautiful picture to all of us

that from the very beginning of time,

God always intended for man's life to be in his

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