A Catechism for Girls and Boys

Part I: Questions about God, Man, and Sin

17. Q. Of what were our first parents made?
      A. God made the body of Adam out of the ground, and formed Eve from the body of Adam.

(Click through to read scriptural proofs.)

• Genesis 2:7

…then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

• Genesis 2:21-23

So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. 22 And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. 23 Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman,
because she was taken out of Man.”

• Genesis 3:19

By the sweat of your face
you shall eat bread,
till you return to the ground,
for out of it you were taken;
for you are dust,
and to dust you shall return.

• Ps 103:14

For he knows our frame;
he remembers that we are dust.

Scripture quoted from the English Standard Version.

Taken from A Catechism for Girls and Boys found here.

Previously posted questions and answers.