The Scripture account of the creation of man is given in four places in Genesis.

The first,   -  in Gen. 1:26-28, is of both male and female.

The second  - is of Adam only, in Gen. 2:7.

The third  - is of the creation of the woman, whom Adam at that time called Isha (woman), because she was taken out of man (Ish). Gen. 2:18-23. Subsequently, Ch. 3:20, he called her Eve because she was "the mother of all living."

The fourth  - is found in Gen. 5:1, 2, and states that God called them Adam.

There are allusions to the statements thus made in two other places in this book, namely,

Ch. 3:19, 23 and Ch. 9:6- 7.

The other Scriptures, both of the Old and New Testaments, endorse the correctness of all the facts stated in Genesis by frequent allusions to one or another of them as undoubted truths.

See Ps. 100:3; 103:14; Ecc. 7:29; 12:7 ; Isa. 64:8; Mal. 2:10, 15;

Matt. 19:4, 5; Mark 10:6, 7; Acts 17:25-29;

Rom. 9:20; 1 Cor. 11:7-9; 15:45-47; Col. 3:10.

 The Scripture doctrine thus revealed is that man was created by God,

being formed, as to his body, from earthy material, and as to his soul, by direct creation; that he was made male and female, one Adam, in the image after the likeness of God.

The Adam thus made, the Scriptures also teach, was the progenitor of all the present race of men. Indeed they appear to allude to him as the embodiment of that race. Adam is not given as a proper name, as are Cain, and Abel, and Noah, but is used to express the creature God proposed to male, (Gen. 1:26), as both male and female. Gen. 5:2.

"In all the other instances in the second and third chapters of Genesis, which are nineteen, it is put with the article, the man or the Adam.

It is also to be observed that though it occurs very frequently in the Old Testament, and though there is no grammatical difficulty in the way of its being declined by the dual and plural terminations and the pronominal suffixes (as its derivative dam blood is), yet it never undergoes those changes; it is used abundantly to denote man in the general and collective sense, mankind, the human race, but it is never found in the plural number.

When the sacred writers design to express men distributively, they use either the compound term sons of men (benei adam), or the plural of enosh, or ish." [Kitto's Cyc., Art. Adam, par. 3.] The importance of this fact will hereafter be seen. It is confirmed by the title of "the second Adam" given to Christ.

The Scripture doctrine thus revealed is that man was created by God, being formed, as to his body, from earthy material, and as to his soul, by direct creation; that he was made male and female, one Adam, in the image after the likeness of God.

 CREATION OF MAN. . THE SCRIPTURE ACCOUNT.