Is the Surrogate Mother Hypothesis Consistent with the Bible?
Genesis 2:19 tells us that God formed the animals “out of the ground.” In Genesis 2:7 we learn that man was also formed “from the dust of the ground.” But, in Psalm 103:14 David reminds us that God, “knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust.” In both Genesis 2:7 and Psalms 103:14 the Hebrew word for “dust” is “Aphar” which means dust or dry earth. The KJV also translated this word as ashes, ground, mortar, powder, and rubbish. A good general translation for this word might be the not-very-flattering English word “dirt.” Notice here that it isn’t just the first representatives of each living creature which are formed from dust; the rest of us are made from “dust” the same as Adam was. Adam was made from dust (Gen 2:7), returned to dust (Gen 3:19), and as we learn from the Psalms, he was dust in between; so are the rest of us. The account in Genesis 2 describes God fashioning a male first, then using material taken from that male to create a woman. This material alone was n
