Man | The Perfect Design
Genesis 1:26,27
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
When God created man, His plan was an everlasting, long-term one. He did not create a being in His image and likeness to die. Man was designed as a multi-dimensional tri-part being - comprising of spirit, soul and body - three in one. These were never designed to be separated. The abnormality of separation between the spiritual and physical entities of man’s make-up occurred by the will of man, not God.
Genesis 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.
God designed man to have a multi-dimensional presence. We are designed to be portals of life flowing from an eternal spiritual reality to the physical realm. The spiritual realm is the source from which everything was physically created.
2 Corinthians 4:18
…while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
When man forsook his identity as a son of God, and gave himself over to a lesser mindset, he effectively reversed the order of things that God originally designed. He began to take on an identity from a created realm.
Genesis 3:6
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
The created part of him - the body - began to dictate his identity and thereby subjected him to a life of bondage.
Jesus came and restored us back to God’s original design - and a better one at that. He reconciled us back to a perfect creation that God originally intended.
2 Corinthians 3:18
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
You are a son of God… made in His image and likeness!
Scripture references:
1 Thessalonians 5:23
And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:17,18
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation.
Ephesians 4:23,24
And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Hebrews 9:27
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.
Colossians 3:3
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
Galatians 2:20
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
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