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    What Is Man?
    What Is Man?
    What Is Man?
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    What Is Man?

    By Robert L Lindsay

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    As we approach the Word of God we need all the wisdom available to us. It is said that the Bible is the Creators Hand book. God is a mystery; as we read the terms, Father, Son and Holy Spirit that these three are one. In God's desire for fellowship He chooses to make man and in doing so He made him a spirit, a soul living in a body; a three part person. How these three parts of our humanity work is an interesting concept to study. I trust that in reading this book it will help you find and walk with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu Publishing Services
    Release dateMay 4, 2015
    ISBN9781483429434
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      What Is Man? - Robert L Lindsay

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      Copyright © 2015 Robert L Lindsay.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored, or transmitted by any means—whether auditory, graphic, mechanical, or electronic—without written permission of both publisher and author, except in the case of brief excerpts used in critical articles and reviews. Unauthorized reproduction of any part of this work is illegal and is punishable by law.

      ISBN: 978-1-4834-2942-7 (sc)

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      Lulu Publishing Services rev. date: 4/28/2015

      CONTENTS

      Introduction: What is Man?

      Part One: Seven Phases of Salvation for Our Spirit

      Part Two: Seven Phases of Salvation for Our Soul

      Part Three: Seven Phases of Salvation for Our Body

      INTRODUCTION:

      WHAT IS MAN?

      In my mid-twenties, I was introduced to a Bible study about the spirit, soul, and body. Over the years, this subject has become more important to me. It answers many of my questions that used to confuse me about Scripture, because at times there seemed to be contradictory statements in the Bible. I love teaching and telling others about the spirit, soul, and body.

      Every person is made up of a spirit and a soul inside a body. When you look at someone, you only see the outside, but you know there is something on the inside too, so you conclude there are only two parts to a person. In the Star of David, there are three points looking upward: one’s spirit, soul, and body grasping toward God. On the three points looking downward to man, I see the mystery of the Godhead—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—reaching down to humanity to embody them with love. The invisible God desires to manifest all of His attributes in a bodily form. We are to be Jesus to a lost humanity around us. God desires to fill the Earth with His Glory but wants to do it through us.

      Due to a lack of understanding of a triune God and His triune man, there are many theological misconceptions. I pray this book will help you in your walk with the Lord.

      Job, in the midst of his anguish, is contending with God. He’s bitter about all that’s happened and doesn’t understand why the Almighty is afflicting him, so he asks: What is man …That you should exalt him and that you should set your heart on him? (Job 7:17-19) Two different conclusions have been drawn from these words:

      1.  Man is not worthy of God’s notice; why does the Almighty contend with him?

      2.  How astonishing is His kindness that the Almighty God should fix His heart and strongest affections on such a poor, base, vile, and impotent creature such as man. Why does God so highly exalt him above all other creatures and mark him with His providence and grace!

      Does man merit God’s attention? What is man that God should make it His business to examine, try, prove, and afflict him? Is it not giving man too much honor to think so seriously about him? Job’s prayer was, O Lord, I am not worthy that You should concern Yourself about me!

      In Job’s plea to God, he says, Till I swallow down my spittle. This is a proverbial expression, which has existed among the Arabs to the present day. Let me draw my breath; give me a moment’s space; let me have even the twinkling of an eye. I am urged by my sufferings to continue my complaint; but my strength is exhausted, my mouth dry from speaking. Suspend my sufferings even for so short a space as is necessary to swallow my spittle, that my parched tongue may be moistened, so that I may renew my complaint. This comment was taken from Adam Clark’s commentary on the Old Testament.

      David made the same statement in Psalms 8:4. What is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you visit him? Imagine David spending the night on a hillside with his sheep. As he looks up at the stars and sees the vastness of the cosmos, he ponders the Almighty and the smallness of mankind. Can you believe God the Father would create man for fellowship and desires to be our friend?

      What is man? What a question to ponder and give our attention to. To share some thoughts on this question, I would like to go back to the beginning of time to retrieve part of the answer.

      Genesis 1:26 says, Then God said, ‘Let us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them dominion over the fish, over the birds of the air, over the cattle, over every creeping thing that creeps on the Earth. Most Christians are Monotheist—one-god worshipers—and do not worship many gods like the pagans do. However, Scripture says our one God said, Let us… We also find that one of the Hebrew names for God is Elohim, which, in English, means God is uniplural. Elohim has long been supposed by the most educated to imply a plurality of persons in the Divine Nature. How can our one God be plural? This is one reason Jews had, and still have, trouble accepting Jesus as God. God, who is invisible, says through Jesus that I am God. Many Christian religions struggle with this, asking, How can this be? Just when we think we have all the answers, there is still more to learn. The Godhead is a mystery that will never be completely understood in this lifetime.

      In order for us to gain some clearer understanding on how our one God is three, we can look at a verse in the New Testament. Romans 1:20 says, "God’s invisible qualities are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse." How can we see a revelation of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit through the things God made?

      In eighth grade biology, Mrs. Ogelsbee taught me that the inner ear is made up of three parts: the hammer, the stirrup, and the anvil. Here’s another example. Hold up one of your fingers, designed by God, and slowly bend it. In that one finger, you will see that it has three parts. The one is three. If you remove

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