1-MAN’S ORIGINAL STATE

2-MAN’S PRESENT STATE

3-MAN’S FUTURE STATE

By: Ms. Noemi

 Q.What do we mean by
man's original state?
 A. By man's original
state, we mean his state
immediately following
his creation and prior
to his lapse into sin.

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 The Origin of Man
 God created man. The origin of human
race is found in divine council. God
said, “Let Us make man” (Gen. 1:26).
 Created from the dust of the ground.
God formed man from “the dust of the
ground” (Gen. 2:7).
 Man’s exalted position. The creation of
man was zenith of all Creation.

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 Genesis 1:26-27
 26 And God said, Let us make man in
our image, after our likeness: let them
have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the fowl of the air, and over the
cattle, and over all the earth, and over
every creeping thing that creepeth upon
the earth.
 27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him; male
and female he created them.”
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Man in the Image of God
Created in the Image and Likeness of
God.
It is frequently suggested that
human moral and spiritual
dimensions reveal something about
God’s moral and spiritual nature. But
since the Bible teaches that man
comprises an indivisible unity of
body, mind, and soul, man’s physical
features must also, in some way,
reflect God’s image.

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Man in the Image of God
Created for Relationships with
Others
Just as the three members of
the Godhead are united in a loving
relationship, so we were created
for the fellowship found in
friendship or marriage (Gen.
2:18). In these relationships we
have the opportunity to live for
others. To be genuinely human is
to be relationship oriented.

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Man in the Image of God
Created to be Stewards of the
Environment
It was as God’s representative
that man was placed over the lower
created orders. So we are not the
victim of circumstances, dominated by
environmental forces. Rather, God
has commissioned us to make a
positive contribution by shaping the
environment, using each situation in
which we are placed as an opportunity
to accomplish God’s will.

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Man in the Image of God
Created with Conditional
Immortality
At Creation, our first
parents were given immortality,
though their possession of it was
conditioned upon obedience.
Having access to the Tree of
Life, they were destined to live
forever. Disobedience would
lead to death (Gen. 2:17; 3:22)
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SEXUALITY IN ITS
ORIGINAL STATE
 Genesis 1:26-27 [26] Then God
said, "Let us make man in our
image, in our likeness, and let
them rule over the fish of the sea
and the birds of the air, over the
livestock, over all the earth, and
over all the creatures that move
along the ground." [27] So God
created man in his own image, in
the image of God he created
him; male and female he created
them.
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SEXUALITY IN ITS
ORIGINAL STATE
 The human need of
companionship (Gen. 1:27)
 The creation of woman (Gen.
2:21)
 The meaning of marriage
(Eph. 5:32)

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 THE ORIGINAL UNITY
OF HUMANITY
 Human race contains no other blood than
that of Adam and Eve (Acts 17:26)
 Animals were created with various kinds
while human appears in single variety.
 Science confirms this biblical information.
The same biological variables, as well as the
same psychological traits and cultural
constants, are present in all human races.
Differences among human races involve
nothing but recombination, enhancement, or
partial suppression of characteristics
common
1-MAN'S to all ofSTATE
ORIGINAL humankind.
 THE ORIGINAL UNITY
OF HUMANITY
 Though not concerned with races as
such, Genesis 11 stresses the original
unity of humankind, even after the Flood.
―The whole earth had one language‖
(verse 1) in the first generation after the
catastrophe. That generation, just as
Adam and Eve, were commanded to
―fill the earth‖ (Gen. 9:1).

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 THE ORIGINAL UNITY
OF HUMANITY
 Under an autocratic leadership, however (Gen.
10:8, 9), they disobeyed the divine command
(Gen. 11:4) and concentrated in Southern
Mesopotamia (verse 2). For the good of this and
all succeeding generations God disbanded them,
enforcing cultural and linguistic diversity among
different groups (verse 8; compare divisions
among Semites, Japhetites, and Hamites in
Genesis 10). This forced dispersal might well have
provided the first opportunity for the genetic drift
and inbreeding responsible for the racial diversity
observable today among humans.
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Inner Life and Its Organic
Support
 Man – a Living Soul. The
scriptural equation is
straightforward: the dust of
the ground (earth’s elements)
+ the breath of life = a living
being, or living soul. The
union of earth’s elements
with the breath of life resulted
in a living being, or soul.

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Man – a Living Soul
 This “breath of life” is not
limited to people. Every
living creature possesses it.
The Bible, for example,
attributes the breath of life
to both those animals that
went into Noah’s ark and
those that did not (Gen.
7:15,22)
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Man – a Living Soul
 It is important to note the
Bible says that man became a
living soul. Nothing in the
creation account indicates
that man received a soul –
some kind of separate entity
that, at Creation, was united
with the human body.

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 Biblical meaning of soul
 Biblical evidence indicates that
sometimes nephesh and psuche
refer to the whole person and at
other times to a particular aspect of
man such as affections, emotions,
appetites, and feelings. This usage,
however, in no way shows that man
is a being made up of two separate
and distinct parts. The body and the
soul exist together; together they
form an indivisible union.

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Biblical meaning of spirit
 As with ruach (in the OT),
there is nothing inherent in
the word pneuma (in the
NT) denoting an entity in
man capable of conscious
existence apart from the
body

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A Twofold Union
 Although the Bible views the
nature of man as a unity, it does
not precisely define the
relationship between body, soul,
and spirit. At times soul and spirit
are used interchangeably. In one
instance man is characterized as
body and soul (Matt. 10:28) and in
another instance as body and spirit
(1 Cor. 7:34).

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A Threefold Union
 There is one exception to the
general characterization of man
as comprising a twofold union
of body and spirit, also spoken
of in terms of a threefols union
(1 Thess. 5:23). This passage
conveys Paul’s desire that none
of these aspects of the person
be excluded from the
sanctification process.

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An Indivisible, Sympathetic
Union
 It is clear that each human
being is an indivisible unit.
The body, soul, and spirit
function in close cooperation,
revealing an intensely
sympathetic relationship
between a person’s spiritual,
mental and physical faculties.
Deficiencies in one area will
hamper the other two.
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Man’s Original State
1. God created man in His
own image, in His own
likeness (Gen. 1:26-27;
9:6)

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 Genesis 1:26-27 [26] Then God said,
"Let us make man in our image, in our
likeness, and let them rule over the fish
of the sea and the birds of the air, over
the livestock, over all the earth, and over
all the creatures that move along the
ground." [27] So God created man in his
own image, in the image of God he
created him; male and female he created
them.
 Genesis 9:6 Whoever sheds the
blood of man, by man shall his blood be
shed; for in the image of God has God
made man.
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Man’s Original State
2. Man was created with
sufficient intellectual capacity to
give names to all living creatures
and to have dominion over
them (Gen. 2:19; 1:28)

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 Genesis 2:19 Now the LORD God
had formed out of the ground all the
beasts of the field and all the birds of
the air. He brought them to the man
to see what he would name them;
and whatever the man called each
living creature, that was its name.
 Genesis 1:28 God blessed them
and said to them, "Be fruitful and
increase in number; fill the earth
and subdue it. Rule over the fish of
the sea and the birds of the air and
over every living creature that moves
on the ground."
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Man’s Original State
3. Man was not created a
sinner, but sin entered into the
world through man, by his
conscious voluntary choice
(Gen. 3:1-6; Rom. 5:12-14;
Ecc. 7:29)

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 Genesis 3:1-6 [1] Now the serpent was
more crafty than any of the wild animals
the LORD God had made. He said to
the woman, "Did God really say, `You
must not eat from any tree in the
garden'?" [2] The woman said to the
serpent, "We may eat fruit from the
trees in the garden, [3] but God did say,
`You must not eat fruit from the tree
that is in the middle of the garden, and
you must not touch it, or you will die.'"

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 [4] "You will not surely die," the serpent
said to the woman. [5] "For God knows
that when you eat of it your eyes will be
opened, and you will be like God,
knowing good and evil." [6] When the
woman saw that the fruit of the tree was
good for food and pleasing to the eye,
and also desirable for gaining wisdom,
she took some and ate it. She also gave
some to her husband, who was with her,
and he ate it.

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 Romans 5:12-14 [12] Therefore, just as sin
entered the world through one man, and
death through sin, and in this way death came
to all men, because all sinned -- [13] for
before the law was given, sin was in the world.
But sin is not taken into account when there is
no law. [14] Nevertheless, death reigned from
the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even
over those who did not sin by breaking a
command, as did Adam, who was a pattern of
the one to come.
 Ecclesiastes 7:29 This only have I found:
God made mankind upright, but men have
gone in search of many schemes.

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Man’s Original State
4. God created man and the
angels for companionship
The only way Man and the
Angels could serve the purpose
for which they were created was
for God to create them less
than perfect.

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Man’s Original State
5. Man was created with the
capability of having children
(Gen. 1:28)
And God blessed them, and
God said unto them, Be
fruitful, and multiply, and
replenish the earth and subdue
it…

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 Circumstances of man's
original state
 It was one of special providence.
 It was one of unhindered access to
God.
 It was one of exemption from physical
death.
 It was one of liberty within the
circumference of the law.
 It was one of most intimate
companionship with a counterpart of
his own flesh and bone.
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 The knowledge of the value God
places on the human person
should fill us with grateful joy. At
the same time, we should feel a
sense of responsibility, not only
to care for our own selves, but to
take to heart the welfare of our
brothers and sisters who also
have been created in the image
of God.

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