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As the Lord led, I ended the August 4, 2019 post, Man No Freak Accident, under the category, Biblical Worldview, speaking of God’s eternal destiny for man. God’s originally planned eternal destiny for man is now for faithful followers of Jesus Christ and glorious beyond human words! Even so, we are given glimpses of man’s astounding eternal destiny in Christ through words He and His apostles spoke that were written down in Holy Scripture. These Scriptures were meant for us to understand through the illuminating agency of the Holy Spirit sent into the world for that very purpose among other of His responsibilities (John 16:12-15; 1 Corinthians 2:6-16).
Truly, man is not only a creature, but God’s highest creation as the only of His creatures expressly made in the divine image and likeness! Let’s get it said right here as Scripture does that this amazing truth applies equally to man as male and female as God designed each respectively to function in serving His purposes in this present mortal age (Genesis 1:26-28, 5:1-2).1 Just because God did not initially speak of man’s eternal destiny as immortals, does not mean this was not His plan from the beginning; a plan postponed by God only after man’s fall as foreknown by Him since Christ as Savior was already set to come (Genesis 3:22-24; 2 Timothy 1:8-11)!
As I wrote in another place, the first stage of human existence is mortal.2 However, the second, last and ultimate end of mortal man is immortality whether as condemned rebels forever with fallen angels in Hell or redeemed by grace through faith in the Gospel of and standing with Christ in eternal glory (Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43, 25:31-46)! Those that stand with Christ fulfill with Him the spiritual end of God’s creation of man which is to be eternal sons to rule over all of His created works including angels (1 Corinthians 6:3; Hebrews 2:5-13).3 The creation of man from the dust in mortal, natural bodies begins with the original man, Adam (Genesis 2:7).
In a context explaining to the church at Corinth how essential the possibility of resurrection from the dead is and the reality of Christ’s (1 Corinthians 15:1-34), the apostle Paul presents the means of it and why it is necessary beginning with mortal Adam (1 Corinthians 15:35-58). Explaining the means of resurrection, Paul unapologetically points to God in power and wisdom! In accord with His mighty power and eternal plans prepared in advance, Paul teaches God makes the second, immortal stage of man possible by overcoming death through resurrection and metamorphosis as is commonly seen, for example, in the planting of a grain seed (1 Corinthians 15:35-44).
Adam introduced death to himself and “the world” in the instant of his disobedience to God as he had been warned would occur (Genesis 2:16-17, 3:6-11, 17-19; Romans 5:12, NKJV). Death has reigned from Adam--the first and federal head of mankind as well as “a type of Him who was to come” as Deliverer--through sin ever since even during the centuries without law from God (Genesis 3:15; Romans 5:13-14, NKJV). However, in God’s “grace” and perfect timing He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, from Heaven to earth “born of a woman” and “under the law” with the free gift of salvation, eternal life and “adoption as sons” through faith in Him (Romans 5:15-21; Galatians 4:4-6, NKJV)!4
Summarizing the apostle Paul’s teaching from 1 Corinthians 15:45-49, the first Adam is of the earth and was brought to life by God from its dust. Like him, all mankind is of the earth too, bears Adam’s fallen creature image and shares in his experience of death. But Jesus Christ the second and last Adam is from Heaven having eternally been God, the Son and Word of God (John 1:1-5, 14-18). Though in His incarnation a body was “prepared for” Him, He always “Am”; ready to give eternal life to all who believe on Him (Luke 1:26-35; John 8:51-58; Hebrews 10:5-7, NKJV)! Those who line up behind Christ as their Head by faith are made spiritual sons of Heaven and live forever bearing His glorious immortal image as planned before time by God (Romans 8:29-30).
Still limited by their earthbound thinking, many professed Christians refuse to believe God will do anything different with our bodies at the resurrection to immortality other than what we have now in form and function as male and female after the first Adam. However, Paul teaches that while these natural, mortal “flesh and blood” bodies do come first, they “cannot inherit the kingdom of God” and a metamorphosis is required (1 Corinthians 15:50-53, NKJV)!5 Because Christ’s former mortal body has already undergone the metamorphosis to immortality, Paul writes we no longer “know Him” after “the flesh” and are to already be enjoying in Him the “new” things He now enjoys to be fully revealed to and in us at His coming (2 Corinthians 5:16-17; Philippians 3:20-21; 1 John 3:2, NKJV).6
1 As I write in my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics, although the female version of man bears the image and likeness of God as creature glory after the
man, Adam, that glory nevertheless, is fully the glory of the divine image and likeness (1 Corinthians 11:7)! You can get a print copy of the book on sale in the
Strong Man Store.
2 See the July 3, 2016 post, Man As God Designed Him, under the category, God’s Creatures.
3 See the June 19, 2016 post, Eternal Sons Of God, under the category, Instruction.
4 Read the three-part post beginning January 29, 2017, Jesus, Son Of Man, under the category, The Cause.
5 Read the two-part post beginning May 18, 21014, The Body Beautiful, under the category, God’s Creatures.
6 Read the three-part post beginning July 10, 2016, Raised To Immortal Glory, and the July 31, 2016 post, The Immortal Bodies Of God’s Eternal Sons, all under the
category, God’s Creatures.
“Being a man is not a freak accident of the cosmos!” This is the first statement on the back cover of my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics,1 making clear its content is founded upon the biblical worldview that man has a purposeful Creator! Making such a statement at all is a sad indicator of how far removed Westerners are now in just under 200 years from an understanding of our origin as from God. Thanks to the rise in acceptance of Charles Darwin’s Theory Of Evolution which today, is secular science dogma and the worldview of many coming out of our nation’s educational system, the biblical worldview of creation is deemed inferior religious babble.
While I am sympathetic toward those Christians that want to try and build a bridge between the two contradictory and competing worldviews because they believe the arguments of secular science are just too demonstratively persuasive, God in my heart and His Word cry out not so fast (did David acquiesce or seek détente with Goliath who was larger than he and out gunned him--1 Samuel 17:33-47?)!2 True enough our mission in Christ is to preach the Gospel about and witness Him. But we are not to do these things while also finding a common ground of acceptance with falsehood, open rebellion against God and apostasy. We must stand firm on the truth of God’s Word as it is written!
Evolution as a competing worldview to biblical Christianity is falsehood raised up in open rebellion against God and apostasy since many that have adhered to it from a Judeo-Christian background from the earliest days of its appearance have had to reject some or all of what is written in His Word about Him and creation. As Jesus showed with the Sadducees, rejecting any of the inspired Word about God, His abilities or deeds, leaves one in a state of spiritual ignorance and without repentance, eternal deadness (Matthew 22:23-33, 23:29-33)! To declare that the physical universe came into being out of nothing and no source cause is the height of folly (Psalm 14:1-4).
However, the Bible in its first words emphatically declares: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth,” (Genesis 1:1, NKJV). God Himself is quoted as declaring: ‘“I am the Lord, who makes all things, who stretches out the heavens all alone, who spreads abroad the earth by Myself,’” (Isaiah 44:24b, NKJV). Science with the endorsement of some professed Christians also says the universe unfolded and evolution took place on earth over millions of years. But God in His Word says He created everything in six literal days (Exodus 20:8-11, 31:16-17). Are you now, so lofty in these latter days, O man, that you call God a liar who says He created all and in six days?
But even as you are so wicked and getting worse leading to one that will boldly be your voice as foretold (Psalm 2:1-3; 2 Timothy 3:13; Revelation 13:1-6), your own science betrays you as the liar. For example, evolutionists fail to appreciate the profound impact man’s sin, God’s consequence of death and related curse on the ground has had on all creation! Indeed, not only does man die, but decay and ruin attend to our bodies to such extent now, the average age of death is dropping below 70 compared to Methuselah who lived 969 years (Genesis 5:25-27).3 Also, the evidence of God’s handiwork is not only all around, but in you as He recently led me to write (Romans 1:18-19).4
The whole field of genetic research is uncovering how most living things are biologically programmed by genes and their informational substance, DNA. This being so, such purposeful programming requires an intelligent programmer. Try as hard as they might, secular scientists cannot logically give credit to non-sentient “mother nature” for the wonder of genetic programming since how can what is not alive itself program that which lives?5 No, but God who eternally lives and created the heavens and earth with their order and design features along with all living things to fulfill the purposes and functions He programmed in them is the Programmer (Genesis 1:2-31; Job 38-41)!6
Thus, man is purposely made in God’s image and likeness as His highest creation and is not a freak accident of something coming out of nothing then evolving (Genesis 1:26). From the dust of the earth the Almighty God created him to live before Him as an eternal son (Genesis 2:7). Knowing all things, God would not be foiled or frustrated when the creature of His love fell and came under judgment. Instead, before there was ever a creation, it had already been decided that Jesus Christ would come and be man’s Deliverer from sin by taking the penalty of death upon Himself. Now, because of Him, man can be restored to obtain the eternal destiny God created him for (Romans 5:6-11, 16:25-27; 2 Timothy 1:8-12; Titus 1:1-3; Hebrews 2:5-18; Revelation 21:1-8).7 So, then, whose report will you believe: fallen men or God’s?
1 Get a print copy or digital download of the book at major internet booksellers such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, ChristianBooks.com and Apple (digital only). You can
also get a print copy of the book on sale in the Strong Man Store.
2 For this reason, brothers in Christ such as Ken Ham and David Rives should be celebrated in the Body of Christ today for their courage in politely, yet, vigorously
standing up to the giant god of evolution and its secular science devotees. These Christian men of science affirm its exciting proper role in discovering, observing, re-
cording, being astounded by and celebrating God’s handiwork when guided by His Word!
3 Google “average age of death.” The heavens and earth under death and the curse show the same kind of rapid and devastating decay (aging) mankind does over a
very short approximately 6,000 year span dating by the Bible would indicate (see article at Answers In Genesis) and doctrinally affirm (Psalm 102:23-27; Hebrews 1:
10-12). Therefore, the dating methods of science that use the actual elements of the creation to measure the passage of time, for example, are flawed from the outset
since these elements have been aged and are aging in accord with God imposed death and His curse. The power of God to rapidly ruin to death is displayed by Jesus
Christ (Mark 11:12-14, 20-22)! Even so, to the glory of God who subjected the creation to death and His curse, it and we in Christ first have hope of soon deliverance
through Him (Psalm 102:28; Romans 8:18-25; 1 John 2:15-17)!
4 See the introduction of the July 14, 2019 post, A Man’s Responsibility To Provide, under the categories, Biblical Worldview and God’s Creatures.
5 They instead, illogically and idolatrously give the glory of biological programming to “mother nature” on faith as a false religious invention while purposely suppressing
the truth of God (Romans 1:18)!
6 God is not only the Programmer, but the active Controller of His creation to include its natural elements, supernatural creatures, ruinous afflictions of death and death
itself (Mark 4:35-5).
7 Restoring men through Jesus Christ is the joyful cause and work of this Ministry. Read the June 29, 2014 post, Fully Restoring Men and posted on July 6, 2014, Christ:
Model Of Perfect Manhood! both under the category, Instruction.
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