BY GOD”S POWER AND PLAN

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 517.

Man was not reshaped from something living. Instead, God took non-living material (also referred to as “inorganic”) and created something living.

Gen 2:7 then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

1 Cor 15:47 The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven.

Eve was created using a rib from the first living human.

Genesis 2:21-23

Every other human has been indirectly created by natural “reproduction.”

Gen. 5:1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. 2 Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created. 3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.

God was intimately and strategically involved in every aspect of the creation of Humankind. The description GOD uses indicates individual and personal interest. It gives the picture of GOD kneeling over Adam and gently breathing life into his body. Thus man became a living human with a physical part and a non physical part that reflected GOD's image. God was intimately and strategically involved in every aspect of the creation of humankind. The description GOD uses indicated individual and personal interest. It gives the picture of GOD kneeling over Adam and gently breathing life in his body. Thus man became a living human with a physical part and a non physical part that reflected GOD's image.

Jer 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Ps 139:13 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. 14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them. 17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!

There are two basic views regarding the basic makeup of man:

 _Bipartite or Dichotomous view

 _Tripartite or Trichotomous view

Both of these are based on how many parts you can “divide” man into.

We know that man is clearly made up of at least two parts. Physical and non-physical. The Tripartite view would further subdivide the non-Physical part.