“‘Dust of the earth’ is a scriptural phrase implying far more than mere dirt particles. We are told that man was created from the dust of the earth. (See Gen. 2:7.) Perhaps another word that would come close to what is implied by dust would be ‘the elements of the earth.’ In Latter-day Saint theology, we certainly do not believe that God pulled together a pile of mud, formed it into the shape of a man, and breathed life into it. A more accurate statement would be to say that God created the human body from the elements of the earth. Benjamin said then, to paraphrase, that we are not even as much as those elements” (Lund, Jesus Christ, 122).