Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return

1. In the Book of Genesis, words that God spoke to Adam in casting him and Eve out of the Garden of Eden. In saying this, God reminded Adam that he had been made from “the dust of the ground” and confirmed that Adam and Eve had brought death upon themselves by disobeying him and eating the forbidden fruit. (See Fall of Man.)

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Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

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If “dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return”, the Bible offers little guidance about how – and where – this final reconstitution should occur in the modern age of cremation.

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In Genesis Adam was doomed to "return unto the ground, for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."

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For the preserved and petrified relics of all the former races, that now lie entombed in the rocks, furnish a silent but impressive demonstration of the former triumph of that great physiological law, which is stamped by the signet of Jehovah upon all existing organic natures—Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

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Go forth into the nether world; "for dust Thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."

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