were taken; for dust you are and to dust you shall return.” In analyzing the above verses, we see that although Adam was formed from the dust as revealed to us in GENESIS 2:7 which says “Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath or spirit of life, and man became a living being.” God did not intend man to have an attachment to it [dust]. We also realize that the dust itself was good according to God`s mind, however the issue was in the precedence of the curses and punishments which were [the serpent, Eve and Adam], in other words the principle of preeminence changed as 10
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