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It is the question of millennia that haunts fallen mankind disconnected from God to this very hour. Ignorant in sin and spiritual darkness, they have groped about wildly grasping unsuccessfully for a fully satisfying answer to the question, “What is man?” Their literary philosophical and poetic musings and empty speculations fill libraries. Self-deification, thrones, empires, absolute authority and control over people, places and things, unlimited pleasure, wealth, accomplishments, building cities and towering edifices all brought some measure of gratification, but still most that have done it all would probably agree with Solomon, ‘“All is vanity,’” (Ecclesiastes 12:8, NKJV).
In light of his conclusion, Solomon did wisely urge that men live to their Creator from their youth and in fear of Him, “keep His commandments” to experience a life beyond futility before inevitable death and certain judgment (Ecclesiastes 12:1-7, 13-14, NKJV). Made temporarily mortal and perfect by way of the first man, Adam, men die since him because Adam disobeyed a very clear command from his Creator after being warned death would be the result (Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-11, 17-19; Romans 5:12). Solomon’s wise and general counsel speaks more to how a man should live in the face of death and judgment, but still does not address the question, “What is man?”
Framed as it is, the question is hopelessly without answer by sinful men who cannot even all agree they have a Creator! However, Solomon’s father, David, asked the question framed appropriately in Holy Scripture after considering the greatness of God and His awesome work of creation that surrounded him when he wrote, “What is man that You are mindful of him and the son of man that You visit him,” (Psalm 8:4, NKJV)? The inspired king understood men are made just a “little lower” as mortals than the ageless angels to rule over God’s creation (Psalm 8:5-8, NKJV) starting with the earth. Overwhelmed by sin, though, the earth rule of fallen man has been and is corrupt.
Nevertheless, man must be very important to God, his Creator, since before there was ever a creation and knowing what would befall His planned creature, the eternal Son and Word of God consented to do the unfathomable to the fallen, finite mind of His creature. He would submit to being incarnated a mortal Man; a Son of Man, one of and with His highest creature (Genesis 3:15; Isaiah 7:14; Luke 1:26-38, 2:1-20; John 1:1-5, 14; Philippians 2:6-7; 1 Peter 1:20)! So beyond natural human mental grasp is this staggering reality, many men for centuries have rejected it, while even some that profess to believe it have looked for ways to diminish the blinding light of its truth.
Not being willing to think of much less repeat the many diabolical heresies concerning Jesus, the Son of Man which He called Himself more than anything else in the Gospel accounts, my focus here are two of the most common misconceptions of His Humanity. First, though solid Bible teachers correctly declare that the Lord is “fully God and fully Man,” often lost in the instruction is the important truth that He is “fully Man” as God originally envisioned and designed from eternity! Thus, like the first Adam, Jesus the Son of Man and second Adam came into the world in completeness of masculine form inwardly and bodily as mortal Man (Genesis 2:7; John 1:15-18). Indeed, Adam prefigures Him in “type” (Romans 5:14, NKJV) as I teach in The Strong Man Of God: Back To Basics.1
As the Lord also leads me to teach in the book, Adam spent only a short time as one, whole creature before he was divided into two with the creation of his helper. The Lord put Adam and his wife back together in marriage to make one complete man again and fulfill His priority purpose of procreation out of this union despite their later disobedience (Genesis 1:27-28, 2:18-25, 3:20). Fully Man, the celibate Jesus in splendid perfection was not androgynous, but all male which His circumcision and presentation to God proves (Luke 2:21-24). In Him, we are able to see what man the creature is supposed to look like in unspoiled glory of nature, character and demeanor made in the image and likeness of and surpassingly greater as God (Genesis 1:26; Colossians 1:15-16, 2:9)!
This business today of putting men down by all that are guilty is of Satan, not God who sent His Son into the world to become one of and restore us. For truly, men as sinners are light years from what God intended by design, but He cared enough; thoroughly loved enough not to disparage or abandon His creature, but make a way to restore him forever through Jesus (John 3:16)! Jesus not only is that way for the restoration of fallen man (John 14:6), but the eternal Man (never again to be solely God), Ruler and Judge of all mankind (Isaiah 9:6-7; John 5:24-30); founding Head of those that by faith in Him have embraced an eternal destiny with Him (1 Corinthians 15:45-49)! The risen, living Christ continues His cry among American churches, “Who is on the Lord's side?”
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