The First Man
Rex Yancey
Genesis 1:26-2:22
In 399 A. D, Augustine said: people wonder at the height of the mountains, waves of the sea, the long courses of the rivers, the vastness of the oceans and the motion of the stars, and pass by themselves without wondering.
A policeman asked a philosopher on a park bench, ''Who are you and why are you here?'' The philosopher said, ''Sir, if I only knew, if I only knew.''
Scientists and philosophers have no answer to the policeman's question. However, the Bible does.
1. HOW CREATION WAS DETERMINED.
''Let us make man...'' God did it! We are not accidents. We did not originate from a primeval ooze.
Scientists know the ingredients that compose man's body, but they cannot put these ingredients together and make a man. If they can't do it on purpose how can they think it happened accidentally?
Ingersoll, an infidel, visited Henry Ward Beecher and saw a globe on his desk. He said, ''Who made that globe?'' Beecher said, ''No one made it. It just happened!''
2. HOW CREATION WAS DEFINED.
''Let us make man in our image.'' Darwin said that man was just a higher form of ape. The apes must be asking am I my keeper's brother.
Adam could not name an animal that could relate on his level. The Psalmist said in division 8, ''What is man that thou art mindful of him?'' And then he adds that God crowned man with glory.
We are made in God's image. We have the nature of God in us. We are made in his likeness to reflect his nature.
Have you ever said, ''He is just like his father?'' Neal Perry had a radio show about gardening. He would say things like ''Don't plant this tree in the shade because it will not be happy there.'' I cringe when I hear that. Plants are not made in the image of God.
God is glorified when the God we know is the God we show. He is glorified when we bring his reputation up to his character.
3. HOW CREATION WAS DESIGNED.
Psalm 8 says ''You make him to be ru ...
Rex Yancey
Genesis 1:26-2:22
In 399 A. D, Augustine said: people wonder at the height of the mountains, waves of the sea, the long courses of the rivers, the vastness of the oceans and the motion of the stars, and pass by themselves without wondering.
A policeman asked a philosopher on a park bench, ''Who are you and why are you here?'' The philosopher said, ''Sir, if I only knew, if I only knew.''
Scientists and philosophers have no answer to the policeman's question. However, the Bible does.
1. HOW CREATION WAS DETERMINED.
''Let us make man...'' God did it! We are not accidents. We did not originate from a primeval ooze.
Scientists know the ingredients that compose man's body, but they cannot put these ingredients together and make a man. If they can't do it on purpose how can they think it happened accidentally?
Ingersoll, an infidel, visited Henry Ward Beecher and saw a globe on his desk. He said, ''Who made that globe?'' Beecher said, ''No one made it. It just happened!''
2. HOW CREATION WAS DEFINED.
''Let us make man in our image.'' Darwin said that man was just a higher form of ape. The apes must be asking am I my keeper's brother.
Adam could not name an animal that could relate on his level. The Psalmist said in division 8, ''What is man that thou art mindful of him?'' And then he adds that God crowned man with glory.
We are made in God's image. We have the nature of God in us. We are made in his likeness to reflect his nature.
Have you ever said, ''He is just like his father?'' Neal Perry had a radio show about gardening. He would say things like ''Don't plant this tree in the shade because it will not be happy there.'' I cringe when I hear that. Plants are not made in the image of God.
God is glorified when the God we know is the God we show. He is glorified when we bring his reputation up to his character.
3. HOW CREATION WAS DESIGNED.
Psalm 8 says ''You make him to be ru ...
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