The bible is a group of books full of answers about everything: Existence, the past, Humans, the present, and the future. The only snag is that it requires study, and the [Holy] Spirit that inspired it, to guide you in that study. Everything revealed there is there as an answer to our existence, purpose and the Creator's plan for our future. As the Message Translation of Deuteronomy 29:29 in the Bible reads,
''God, our God, will take care of the hidden things but the revealed things are our business. It’s up to us and our children to attend to all the terms in this Revelation.''
What was there before Adam (the first recorded human in the Bible) came on the scene, is partly a mystery but the creation of Adam is not and God's plan for him is not. It is all laid out.
After Genesis, 1:1, in verse 2, God saw the chaos that the earth was in and decided order needed to be restored. So he started to bring order in the stages he called Days. By the sixth day, he decided it was time to bring into existence another creature - one that would maintain the order he had established and cause all creation to continue to thrive. So he made this caretaker creature in his image and likeness. This creature was known as Adam - Mankind.
The creature he made shared their body-origin with all the plants and animals because they also originated from the earth. God had commanded the Waters (sea, and other bodies of water) to produce Aquatic and Flying creatures, while the ground (soil, earth) was to produce all the animals, domestic, creeping, and wild ones. The common element is that the speech of God gave the waters and earth the ability to produce living organisms that could reproduce themselves. [ Genesis 1:11, 20, 24] When it came to the Adam however, though YHWH formed his body out of this same Earth he had empowered to give life to the animals, but he did something additional in that he breathed his life-breath directly into him and he became a living being. So the difference between this man-creature and the other animals was that while their life source came from the Waters and Soil of the Word-of-God-energised Earth, his inner life came from God(YHWH) [Genesis1:26, 2:7]. The Adam was the first, in the sense of inner life, to come from God. His body was of the earth but his inner being was sustained directly by God. He was in flesh the same origin with all animals but in spirit, originated from the life breath of the Creator. He was God's son.
That is why the preacher said in Ecclesiastes 12:7, ''and the dust returns to the ground it came from,
and the spirit returns to God who gave it.''
This Adam as we well know, got his inner life cut off from the Creator (YHWH) by disobedience but this was fixed by the arrival of a second Adam. Some of us get excited about Christmas for this reason. It marks the biggest event in the history of all creation - the day the Eternal God would by his Spirit be born a Man!
''As the Scriptures say, “The first man, Adam, became a living person.”But the last Adam[Jesus] is a life-giving spirit. The spiritual man did not come first. It was the physical man that came first; then came the spiritual. The first man came from the dust of the earth. The second man came from heaven. All people belong to the earth. They are like that first man of earth. But those who belong to heaven are like that man of heaven. We were made like that man of earth, so we will also be made like that man of heaven.'' [1 Corinthians 15: 45 -49 Easy-to-Read Version]
This second (and last) Adam - Jesus- came to start a new race. A race that is not merely humans restored to the life union with God, but will (by his power and sacrifice) be transformed to have the very life-giving ability that God has. They would be just like himself - sources of life. They would also have power to control their current earth-bodies and in addition, would at the restoration of all things, have Jesus' supernatural type of (resurrection) body - a body which is not linked to the earth, but is from heaven itself. In other words, there would be nothing 'earthy' about them in any way. They would be - body and Soul - directly sons of God: The New Human Species!
When the angels announced to the shepherds: “Don’t be afraid. I have some very good news for you—news that will make everyone happy. Today your Savior was born in David’s town. He is the Messiah, the Lord.'' It is indeed news that should make everyone happy! Not only is God no longer angry with the first Adam (and those that came from him - i.e. all of mankind), but he has brought in a New man to elevate those of the Old (who accept) to the level of God-offsprings in Body and Soul! This is good news indeed.
So this Christmas, why not accept the greatest gift of all - the elevation and renewal of your soul and spirit and the promotion of your body. What gift could be greater?
''And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.''1 John 5:11-12
''For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.'' Romans 8:3 -4
''that if you acknowledge publicly with your mouth that Yeshua (Jesus) is Lord and trust in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be delivered.'' Romans 10:9 CJB
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