Notice how Adam was made. It was the opposite of how many people today view themselves. God didn’t first make a soul called “Adam” and then look around for something physical to put that soul into, as though the soul was the real Adam and his body was the equivalent of a Tupperware container to store it in. No. God actually started with matter. He formed a body from the ground, which was then brought to life. As one writer put it, in the Old Testament someone “is an animated body, not an incarnated