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It is good to be reminded that God created the human beings and creatures after creating the world. Though it could not have been vice versa, it is/was not impossible for God to have created two different places as the abode for humans or creatures and living beings. God could have created humankind first, but the Book of Genesis records and reminds us that Adam was formed out of the dust, the first place for him to begin his life with and from and, the final resting place for him and the other humans until today. It is also possible that God could have formed human like statues out of dust and, not breathed life into them, but God chose not to. I am curious to know what life would have looked in that fashion and since God breathed life into the man made out of dust, what was the purpose of …show more content…

(Exodus 2) I do wonder if God’s will and purpose of individual lives has something to do with the fortune of the child. A recent post on the face book reminds me of a story of a woman in Poland who, according to her doctors was brain dead m 55 days after the death of his mother , but the doctors did some treatment to make her able to live until the time of delivery. She gave birth to a baby boy and later died. In a similar manner, I am reminded of a dead shark that was pregnant, and when people at the shore saw it, they dissected her, and the baby fish were born alive. It makes me say that God is present during the life and death experiences. This is relative to Thomas Aquinas’ statement “Not only that things are done which God wills to be done, but also that they are done in the way that He

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