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#### Shorter Catechism
<span class="q">Q 10.</span> How did God create man?
<span class="q">A.</span> God created man male and female, after his own image,[^fnref:wsc1] in knowledge,[^fnref:wsc2] righteousness, and holiness,[^fnref:wsc3] with dominion over the creatures.[^fnref:wsc4]
[^fnref:wsc1]: <div class="esv"><h5>Genesis 1:27</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p01001027.01-1">So God created man in his own image,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>in the image of God he created him;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>male and female he created them. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wsc2]: <div class="esv"><h5>Colossians 3:10</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p51003010.01-1">and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wsc3]: <div class="esv"><h5>Ephesians 4:24</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p49004024.01-1">and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wsc4]: <div class="esv"><h5>Genesis 1:28</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p01001028.01-1">And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”</p> </div><h5>Psalm 8</h5> <div class="esv-text"> <div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19008001.17-2"><span class="chapter-num" id="v19008001-2">8:1 </span>O <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>, our Lord,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>how majestic is your name in all the earth!<br /> You have set your glory above the heavens.<br /> <span class="indent"></span>Out of the mouth of babies and infants,<br /> you have established strength because of your foes,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>to still the enemy and the avenger.</p> <p class="line-group" id="p19008003.01-2">When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,<br /> what is man that you are mindful of him,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and the son of man that you care for him?</p> <p class="line-group" id="p19008005.01-2">Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and crowned him with glory and honor.<br /> You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>you have put all things under his feet,<br /> all sheep and oxen,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and also the beasts of the field,<br /> the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>whatever passes along the paths of the seas.</p> <p class="line-group" id="p19008009.01-2">O <span class="small-caps">Lord</span>, our Lord,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>how majestic is your name in all the earth! (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div> </div>
#### Larger Catechism
<span class="q">Q 17.</span> How did God create man?
<span class="q">A.</span> After God had made all other creatures, he created man male and female;[^fnref:wlc1] formed the body of the man of the dust of the ground,[^fnref:wlc2] and the woman of the rib of the man,[^fnref:wlc3] endued them with living, reasonable, and immortal souls;[^fnref:wlc4] made them after his own image,[^fnref:wlc5] in knowledge,[^fnref:wlc6] righteousness, and holiness;[^fnref:wlc7] having the law of God written in their hearts,[^fnref:wlc8] and power to fulfill it,[^fnref:wlc9] and dominion over the creatures;[^fnref:wlc10] yet subject to fall.[^fnref:wlc11]
[^fnref:wlc1]: <div class="esv"><h5>Genesis 1:27</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p01001027.01-1">So God created man in his own image,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>in the image of God he created him;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>male and female he created them.</p> </div> </div><h5>Matthew 19:4</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p40019004.01-2">He answered, <span class="woc">“Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female,</span> (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc2]: <div class="esv"><h5>Genesis 2:7</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p01002007.01-1">then the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc3]: <div class="esv"><h5>Genesis 2:22</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p01002022.01-1">And the rib that the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc4]: <div class="esv"><h5>Genesis 2:7</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p01002007.01-1">then the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.</p> </div><h5>Job 35:11</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p18035011.01-2">who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’</p> </div> </div><h5>Ecclesiastes 12:7</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p21012007.01-3">and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.</p> </div><h5>Matthew 10:28</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p40010028.01-4"><span class="woc">And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.</span></p> </div><h5>Luke 23:43</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p42023043.01-5">And he said to him, <span class="woc">“Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”</span> (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc5]: <div class="esv"><h5>Genesis 1:26-27</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p01001026.01-1">Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”</p> <div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p01001027.01-1">So God created man in his own image,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>in the image of God he created him;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>male and female he created them. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc6]: <div class="esv"><h5>Colossians 3:10</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p51003010.01-1">and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc7]: <div class="esv"><h5>Ephesians 4:24</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p49004024.01-1">and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc8]: <div class="esv"><h5>Romans 2:14-15</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p45002014.01-1">For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc9]: <div class="esv"><h5>Ecclesiastes 7:29</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p21007029.01-1">See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc10]: <div class="esv"><h5>Genesis 1:28</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p01001028.01-1">And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”</p> </div><h5>Psalm 8:6-8</h5> <div class="esv-text"><div class="block-indent"> <p class="line-group" id="p19008006.01-2">You have given him dominion over the works of your hands;<br /> <span class="indent"></span>you have put all things under his feet,<br /> all sheep and oxen,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>and also the beasts of the field,<br /> the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea,<br /> <span class="indent"></span>whatever passes along the paths of the seas. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div> </div>
[^fnref:wlc11]: <div class="esv"><h5>Genesis 2:16-17</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p01002016.01-1">And the <span class="small-caps">Lord</span> God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”</p> </div><h5>Genesis 3:6</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p01003006.01-2">So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.</p> </div><h5>Ecclesiastes 7:29</h5> <div class="esv-text"><p id="p21007029.01-3">See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes. (<a href="http://www.esv.org" class="copyright">ESV</a>)</p> </div> </div>