THE CREATION OF MAN WE HAVE seen that man is the reason for creation. In the light of this tremendous fact, we turn to study the man whom God created to meet the cry of His being for fellowship. Genesis 1 gives the account of the preparation God made for man before He created him. First, He planned a universe for man, and in the heart of that universe He purposed a home. When Love laid the foundations of this mighty universe, he planned and purposed it all to be the home for His man. Genesis 1:25. At the completion, God put His stamp of approval upon it. It will meet mans every need. The home is now ready for man. Genesis 1:26. God now makes the solemn declaration that He wishes to make man in His own image. Knowing that fellowship is the reason for man, we can easily understand that man could not meet the reason for his very existence unless he were created in Gods image. In order to partake of Gods life, he must be in Gods class, in Gods realm. He must be made in the image and likeness of his Creator. He must be created as near like Deity as possible, in order to be Gods child and heir. Man, a Triune Being Genesis 1:27 records the creation of man in the image of God. Adam was the first man. Genesis 2:7. Through his sin came the fall of man. Man, after the fall, in his condition of spiritual death, could not know what the image of God was, without a revelation from Him. John 4:24. Jesus Christ, the Incarnate One, revealed that the Father was a Spirit Being. I Thessalonians 5:23. Paul in his revelation disclosed the fact that man is a triune being, consisting of a spirit, soul and body. The spirit is the real man, created in the image of God. The soul includes the reasoning faculties. The Father-God created man in His own image, a spirit being, with a soul and body. Mans soul and body fit him for his life upon this material universe which has been created for him. The real man is spirit. Man was to walk in fellowship with the Father- God in His realm, which is the realm of the spirit. Your body is not you. Your mind is not you. You have a mind which you use. You possess a body which you use. Your mind and body are merely the instruments of your spirit, the real YOU. The man who is spiritually dead does not realize the fact that he was created in Gods image, to walk with Him. This is due to the fact that all the natural man is able to know about reality, he gains through the five senses belonging to his physical body. These physical sense organs of the human body can only receive a stimulus from like substance, matter. Therefore, mans senses can perceive only for him a physical or material realm. There exists, according to the Scriptures, a spiritual realm as well as a physical. The Father, the Holy Spirit, the Angels, Satan and Demons, are all Spirit Beings. Our physical senses do not contact this spiritual realm. Ephesians 6:1-20 reveals the spiritual warfare surrounding us, from which our sense organs receive no stimuli. We are not aware, through any physical contact, of the presence of the Holy Spirit or Angels. Read John 16:7-15; Hebrews 1:14; John 14:23; I Corinthians 3:16; I Peter 5:8; Mark 16:17; I John 4:1-6; and James 4:7. Because the doctor, with the point of his knife, has not been able to locate the spirit of man, the materialists and atheists have said that the body is the whole man. Romans 1:18-25, 28. Man has refused to have God in his knowledge, because he has not been able to see Him with his physical eye, hear Him with his physical ear, or touch Him. A fish might just as well say there is nothing outside of water, as for a man, limited to Sense Knowledge, to say there exists nothing but matter. We conclude that man is primarily a spirit being, created to walk with the Father-God on His level. We realize that when He created man, God had no body; yet mans fellowship was perfect and complete with Him. This reveals that mans body was subordinate to his spirit, and that his spirit was to dominate. The Bible in the Light of our Redemption
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