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Who And What Are We?

The sixth day of creation in the Genesis account reads:

-- Click To Expand/Collapse Bible Verses -- Gen ch1:v24-31
Gen 1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Gen 1:25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Gen 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Gen 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
Gen 1:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Gen 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. (KJV)

First I note that God made man on the sixth day and said of all He made that it was "very good". He also stated that God had given his creation of life free will in every form of decision, both deterministic and branching (as seed bearing a shoot or of a tree bearing fruit respectively).

Yet God also created a man, Adam, to tend to Him in His garden planted in Eden.

Now, God always offered (and continues to offer) redemption to His creation, and as long as one man Adam stayed obedient in a paradise, redemption was open to all mankind, even as separately created on the sixth day. That way, instead of, say 1,000,000 men required to remain completely obedient and also obedient forever with, say, (at a guess) a 1 in 1,000,000 chance of disobedience and a high likelihood of a "fall", Adam, a single man would have a 1 in 1,000,000 chance of ever falling in eternity; and the true figure is the best odds man was ever given.

So, as long as one man (Adam) would give an example that man is easily redeemable, such as with Adam in the garden, man was able to approach God on the redemptive terms God laid down. Adam, was living testament to the sure possibility of this redemption.

Consider Cain’s words “Am I my brother’s keeper?” after his slaying of Abel; a mere excuse for his action’s by pointing the finger at his father Adam’s fall from ever being able to redeem sixth day man. Cain, then pointed the finger back at God as if to say “this was a consequence of your rejection”.

When the fall occurred with the serpent's (Satan's) temptation of Eve as well as Adam's wilful disobedience, the continuing possibility of that justified lifeline was temporarily cut. An open gulf then existed without the prior justification that enabled God to interact with man on the logical pretext that they were redeemable. God’s spirit could no longer, or not for long, strive with man His creation. Charity, as from God, had been interrupted by that fall. Now, if God is not justified in redeeming His creation He does not do so. (For there are then grounds of accusation against Him doing so.) God instead, allowed men to die out naturally by his own evil without intervention from God – an act that God swore He would never repeat – bringing another “flood”.

God repented that He had made man, as man was a wicked creation without His redemption supplied. God remade the universe and spared only Noah, a man whose family was not corrupted by the then current paradigm that rejected monogamy.

This situation continues to this day, but for the fact that God has reintroduced His Spirit's influence for all those that remain obedient to His laws as given to His prophet and mediator Moses, and Adam's obedient example is restored in the person of Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, Himself our saviour bringing the forgiveness of sins and all reconciliation with God - His promised Messiah as revealed by the testimony of the prophets.

God, has promised to judge mankind for all his evil as well as to justly supply him salvation. All judgement is given to His Christ, as He is the first and the last – the greatest example of obedience to all Christians everywhere.

So, now we live in the very end of the age, when all contact with God is restored and there are now many sons of God (and daughters too) and also many prophets - and although we look forward to Christ's promised judgement and an eternal reward - we as Christians are aware that we see the things of God only a little and indistinctly in this world, but then we surely will, later, see and perceive as if clearly.


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