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What Is Man?

What Is Man?. Psalms 8: 4.“What is man that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou visitest him?” Although many believe and teach that man is all important and that God exists to serve man, the truth is that man exists for the pleasure of and at the will of God.

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What Is Man?

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  1. What Is Man? • Psalms 8: • 4.“What is man that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou visitest him?” • Although many believe and teach that man is all important and that God exists to serve man, the truth is that man exists for the pleasure of and at the will of God. • Romans Chapter 9: • 20. “Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?” • 21. “Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?”

  2. What Is Man?The Origin of Man • Genesis Chapter 2: • 7. “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” • The Theory of Evolution teaches that man through a process of accidents and an unthinkable period of eons, evolved from a one celled amoebae, through the frog, fish, bird and monkey stages to man. • But the Bible clearly teaches that there was no accidental evolution, but a clear plan from an all wise Creator. There have been changes in the physical and mental development of man from age to age. God created man in His own image, breathed into him Life and is working to return man into His Likeness.

  3. What Is Man?The Origin of Man • Man is a Three Fold Being: • He has a body of flesh. • It is a material form, made up of the many compounds of earth. It is aware of other material substances by means of sensory perception (sight, smell, taste, sound, touch, etc). The body grows from a minute egg into a complex multi-celled structure. • The name given the first man Adam, signified the very origin and nature of man. The original Hebrew Admah, translates literary, Earth.

  4. What Is Man?The Origin of Man • Man is a Spirit Being: • In Genesis Chapter 2: the Prophet Moses wrote: • 7.“And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul (Nepesh- Chayah).” • The word BREATH translates as SPIRIT. This is what causes man to live. It is what causes the heart to pump, the blood to circulate, the muscles and tissues to be nourished, grow, deteriorate and be replaced, without any conscious thought to accomplish the process.

  5. What Is Man?The Origin of Man • Man is a Living Soul: • The soul of man is indestructible as far as man is concerned. God alone has the power to destroy the soul. Man may: • Care for it, • Neglect it • Feed it • Reason with it • Conduct it in such a way as to assure its eternal hope and blessedness. • But man cannot destroy or annihilate it. • It is this Spirit or Soul of man which will return to God at death. • Ecclesiastes Chapter 12: • 7. “Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.”

  6. What Is Man?Woman • Genesis Chapter 2: verses 18 to 25: • God brought the many species of life before Adam to be named and become familiar with their habits and means to care for them. • God was also conscious of the fact that Adam was in need of a created form to interact and commune with at a human level. None of the multitude of created things met the need as a helper and mate. • God was aware that it is not good for man to be alone. • It was then that God divided mankind into sexes by dividing Adam into Male and Female. • Thus Woman is not a separate creation, but a refinement of man. She is made for the purpose of procreation, but also as a balance for man. She complements him by certain emotional qualities such as sentimentality, sensitivity, tenderness, affection, etc.

  7. What Is Man?Man’s Responsibility • Isaiah Chapter 43: • 7.“Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.” • Man was not created by some whim or after thought of God. God has a definite purpose in his plan for man. Man’s primary responsibility is to reflect the glory of God. • Man is created to behave himself more uprightly than any of the other of God’s creation, because he is the only one with the power or capacity for self-control, decision making and genuine affection and love toward God. • Genesis Chapter 2: • 15.”And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.” • Secondarily, man was given the responsibility of overseeing the rest of God’s handiwork. He was told to have dominion over the animal kingdom and care for the things of creation.

  8. What Is Man?The Fall of Man • The Choice: Of every tree of the Garden or the forbidden tree? • Genesis Chapter 2: • 16.”And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:” • 17.”But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” • Man was created a moral and pure being, but he did not long retain this state of moral purity. When Satan came to earth, he began a campaign to undo man’s moral condition. • Satan’s approach to Eve was to first introduce a question to her mind by asking”Yea hath God said, ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?” Or “Did God REALLY say you shouldn't eat of every tree in the garden?”

  9. What Is Man?The Fall of Man • The Choice: • Genesis Chapter 3: verses 1 to 7: • When Eve answered that they were forbidden to eat of the tree in the midst of the garden for fear of death, Satan replied that they would not actually die, but have knowledge equal to God’s knowledge. • Man, by this simple act, fell from his original state of grace and became by his new nature a doubter of God, a tester of God, and disobedient toward God’s laws. • The” I Am, that I Am” God has always existed. At the beginning of time He created a universe, placed Man in it and gave him moral restrictions. The enemy of God came and corrupted Man and doomed him to eternal punishment.

  10. What Is Man? Degeneration • God generated Man in the beginning. • This means He made him, created him. As a result of Man’s sin, he was shut off from the source of all life and began to degenerate or to become un-made. • Degeneration is the process of becoming ungodly, wicked, and dead. Degeneration means the undoing of all of man’s Godlike qualities. • Adam and Eve are the parents of all mankind and the consequences of their fall are passed down to all generations and ages.

  11. The Doctrine of Salvation • God’s Predestined Plan for Man’s Restoration: • Regeneration • Redemption • Reconciliation • Propitiation • Atonement • Adoption • Justification • Mercy • Grace

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