How were people created by God?

Answer 1

With the exception of mankind, we are only told what God made, not how He made it. That fact is in order to stress mankind's importance.

To make man, God fashioned the appropriate shape from dirt and breathed a soul into it (Genesis ch.2). He then made the first woman by fashioning her from a piece of the man's flesh (ibid).

Note that the Torah, in describing the Creation, deliberately employs brevity and ellipsis, just as it does in many other topics. See the Talmud, Hagigah 11b.

See also the Related Links.

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Answer 2

Each religion has its own interpretation of the act of creation and there is no single answer that will satisfy all of them. Surprisingly, the Catholic Church probably has the most reasonable approach to the subject.

"In the 1950 encyclical Humani generis, Pope Pius XII confirmed that there

is no intrinsic conflict between Christianity and the theory of evolution, provided that Christians believe that the individual soul is a direct creation by God and not the product of purely material forces. Today, the Church supports theistic evolution(ism), also known as evolutionary creation, although Catholics are free not to believe in any part of evolutionary theory.

The Catholic Church holds no official position on the theory of creation or evolution, leaving the specifics of either theistic evolution or literal creationism to the individual within certain parameters established by the Church."

(Wikipedia, Catholic Encyclopedia)

Answer 3

People were created by God directly and immediately out of nothing.