Why did God make Adam from dirt if man was made in His image?

Todd from Missouri calls Hank Hanegraaff, the host of the 𝘉𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘈𝘯𝘴𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘔𝘢𝘯 broadcast and the 𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘜𝘯𝘱𝘭𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘥 podcast, to ask why God made Adam from dirt in Genesis 2, when in Genesis 1, He made man in His image.

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[deanfloyd]

Why was Eve made from Adam, instead of the dust of the ground?

[dsp]

From the beginning, mankind through Adam was made from the dust of the ground because mankind through Adam was initially created as part of the process of Creation of mankind.

In the beginning, as part of the process of Creation mankind through Adam was made initially to be corruptible so that mankind's corruptibility would lead to mankind's mortality.

That was the Lord Jesus's intention for mankind through Adam in the beginning.

From that beginning, the Lord Jesus had already put in place everything in Creation according to His eternal plan for mankind to be His future eternal sons and daughters.

So then, in order to create His future eternal sons and daughters...

The fall of mankind through Adam was put in place in order to create for Himself sons and daughters who were made in His image.

In order to be truly made in the image of our Lord Jesus, it was necessary that all of mankind through Adam come to the knowledge of good and evil molded together with free will.

It was for the very purpose of creating sons and daughters who were made in His image and knowing that sin and death would ensue that the Lord Jesus predestined Himself to be murdered by His own future eternal sons and daughters in the most tortuous and ignominious manner on a cross.

It was through hanging on the Cross that our Lord Jesus was reconciling His future eternal sons and daughters back to Himself...

That is, through the Cross, all of mankind's sins that followed Adam were justified by the Lord Jesus Christ.

It was through the Cross then that the Lord Jesus's righteousness was revealed by forgiving all of mankind's sins committed following Adam.

It is through the Cross that the revelation of what the Lord Jesus was willing to do for His future eternal sons and daughters on the Cross that the consciences of men will be seared into repentance.

Indeed, then, it was through our Lord Jesus Christ alone that the Lord Jesus's eternal plan of redemption of mankind was finished on the Cross.

It is just as our Lord Jesus Christ declared while hanging on the Cross...
“It is finished.”

Therefore, it is through our Lord Jesus alone that redemption came to all of mankind.

Having redeemed mankind through the Cross it was through the Lord's resurrection that the Lord Jesus revealed to mankind and to all of the rulers and authorities in the heavenlies above and the earth below His eternal Gospel of salvation for mankind...

That is, from generation through generation since Adam, the Lord Jesus's future eternal sons and daughters have been coming to the knowledge of good and evil molded together with free will.

This process of Creation will continue until that last generation, when the full number of the gentiles whose names were written in the Book of Life before the creation of Creation has reached its fulfillment.

Then, during that final generation on a day and hour unknown, the Day of the Lord Jesus will come upon all of mankind and Creation like a thief in the night at the last trumpet sound...

On that day, the Lord Jesus will be revealed in all of His everlasting glory, and all of the Lord's sons and daughters will be made known to all of Creation.

So, on that Day, the Lord Jesus will be revealed in all of His everlasting glory...

In that moment, the consciences of mankind will be seared through the Lord's glorious appearance so that at the Name of Jesus, every knee will bow, and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord to the glory of the Father.

...In that moment, our Lord Jesus will be made known to mankind as the only One through whom the Lord's eternal sons and daughters were saved...

Indeed, the gate was not just small, and the road was not just narrow, that led to eternal life.

That gate was singular...

Everything was predestined to go through our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus.

Then, on that Day, the eternal sons and daughters will be made known to all of Creation...

In a flash, in the twinkling of the Lord's eye, all will be made incorruptible, and all will be made immortal.

On that Day, ‭1 Corinthians 15:51-57 will be fulfilled...

"Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
“Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?” The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ."

Then the Lord's eternal sons and daughters, together with their Lord Jesus, will live forever in a new heavens and a new earth.

...What a Gospel the Lord Jesus has made known by His sovereign grace to those whom He predestined to believe even while still living in this perishing world...

Truly then, all might, honor, and glory belong to our Lord Jesus, who is God over all to be forever praised.