As Christians, when trying to interpret the Bible, we should ask God to enhance our understanding of His scripture in such a way that He wants us to comprehend it. We have the right to bring our prior knowledge when interpreting the Bible, but as a believer, we also understand that God does the supernatural. Science is not our only means of truth. Although it provides many answers, it can’t explain everything. Science offers natural explanations of natural events, but it has no power or need to assert that only natural events occur (Hutchinson 2016).
Speculation about how the world began is nothing new. The challenging question of where we came from and the creation of the universe has always been a debate. Genesis is a book about the origin of the universe and birth of the human race. But, we have to keep in mind the book is more than just about origins. Genesis provides a foundation for many themes in the
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In Genesis 2:7 it states, “Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.” The word dust can have more than one meaning such as being of little worth. We can see this in another verse such as 1 Samuel 2:8, “He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s, and he hath set the world upon them.” Here we can see that the word dust means something of little worth. Now let’s examine the part where God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and the man became a living being. The word “breath” in Hebrew is “ruach” which has the same meaning as the word spirit. Therefore, this part of the verse could mean that God created man by putting his spirit into