A Catechism for Girls and Boys

Part I: Questions about God, Man, and Sin

18. Q. What did God give Adam and Eve besides bodies?
      A. He gave them souls that could never die.

(Click through to read scriptural proofs.)

• 1 Corinthians 15:45

Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

• Ecclesiastes 12:7

…and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

• Zechariah 12:1

The burden of the word of the Lord concerning Israel: Thus declares the Lord, who stretched out the heavens and founded the earth and formed the spirit of man within him….

Scripture quoted from the English Standard Version.

Taken from A Catechism for Girls and Boys found here.

Previously posted questions and answers.