Jesus and Time: Creation Comes After Easter
God’s Hands in the Dirt
A few years ago I noticed that there are many of passages in Scripture where God has his hands in the dirt. He’s a working-class God, not afraid to get his hands dirty. This is one of the ways in which he differs from other gods of antiquity.
When I started looking into these passages I noticed that every time God “plays in the dirt” he seems to be up to the same thing.
The first passage sets the theme. Genesis 2:7 says, “…then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.”
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