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be light: and there was light"
(Gen. 1:3) .
So in six days God RENEWED THE
FACE OF THE EARTH (this renewing
was not its original creation, but
restoring it to the condition of its
original creation) preparing it for
the creation of MANÍ
God separated the dry land from
the oceans. He created then the
plant life on the land, then the sea
life in the water, the animal life. In
the Hebrew in which Moses wrote,
the vertebrates are called
nephesh
in verses 20, 21, 24. The transla–
tors correctly rendered
nephesh
in
these three verses into the English
words "living creatures."
Y
et in
Genesis 2:7, speaking of man, the
same word
nephesh
was transJated
"soul" because the translators
falsely thought that only humans
are souls. The word
nephesh
liter–
ally means "life of animals," refer–
ring to physical life and not spirit.
Once again the earth was a per- ·
fect, but as yet unfinisbed, cre–
ation-lacking the finishing
touches.
As was written earlier, God ere–
ates in dual stages. This might be
compared to baking a cake. First
the basic cake comes from the
oven. But it is not complete until
the second stage is added-the
icing on the cake. This beautifies,
enriches and completes the cake.
God placed Lucifer and his angels
on the earth. But he intended them
to complete the creation by putting
on, as it were, the finishing touches
to beautify, improve and enrich the
earth. But the angels sinned, resul t–
ing in bringing chaos, confusion and
darkness to this planet.
Now God renewed the face of
the earth for MAN, made to become
in the character image of God and
also in the likeness or form and
shape of God. And God intended
man to complete the finishing
touches by improving and beautify–
ing the earth-putting, as it were,
the icing on the cake, as man's part
in the fi nal creation of the earth.
lnstead, man has ruined, polluted,
defiled, deteriorated almost every
portion of the earth his hands have
touched or acted upon.
The Purpose of Man on Earth
WHY did the Creator God put
MAN on the earth? For God's ulti-
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mate supreme purpose of reproduc–
ing himself---of recreating himself,
as it were, by the supreme objec–
tive of creating the righteous divine
character ultimately in millions un–
numbered of begotten and born
children who shall become God Be–
ings, members of the God family.
Man was to
improve
the physical
earth as God gave it to
him,finishing
its creation (which sinning angels
had deliberately refused todo) and,
in
SO
doing, to RESTORE the GOVERN–
MENT OF Goo, with God's
w
Av of
life; and further, in this very process
FINISHING THE CREATION OF
MAN .
by the development of God's holy,
righteous CHARACTER, with man's
own assent.
Once this perfect and righteous
character is instilled in man, and
man converted from mortal flesh to
immortal spirit, then is to come the
INCREDIBLE HUMAN POTENTIAL–
man being BORN INTO the divine
FAMIL
Y
of God, restoring the gov–
ernment of God to the earth, and
then participating in the comple–
tion of the CREATION over the en–
tire endless expanse of the UNI–
VERSE! That incredible potential of
man wi ll be fully explained in the
pages that follow in this volume.
God shall have reproduced HIM–
SELF untold millions of times over!
So, on the sixth day of that recre–
ation week, God
(Eiohim)
said,
"Let us make man in our image,
after our likeness" (Gen. 1:26).
Man was made to have (with his
assent) a special relationship with
bis Maker! He was made in the
form and shape of God . He was
given a spirit (essence in form) to
make the relationsh ip possible.
Much more of that a little later .
The Soul ls Mortal
But God made MAN of MATTER!
This was necessary for the supreme
accomplishment God willed.
"And the Lord God formed man
of the dust of the ground, and
breat hed into bis nostrils the
breath [air] of life; and man be–
carne a living soul" (Gen . 2:7).
Man, formed from material dust of
the ground, upon breathing air, BE–
CAME a living soul.
It
does not say
man is, or has, an
immortal
soul.
What was formed from material
ground BECAME a soul.
The word "soul" is translated
from the Hebrew in which Moses
wrote, from the word
nephesh.
The
Hebrew
nephesh
merely means a
breathing animal. Three times in
the first chapter of Genesis animals
are called
nephesh:
Gen . 1:20,
"moving creature" (Hebrew,
ne–
phesh
) ;
Gen. 1:21, "great whales,
and every living creature" (He–
brew,
nephesh
);
Gen. 1:24, "living
creature" (Hebrew,
nephesh).
The
translators in translating into the
English language used the Engl ish
word "creature," but in Genesis
2:7 they translated the same
nephesh
into the English word
"soul" - man became a " living
soul"
(nephesh
).
Therefore the SOUL is physical,
composed of matter, and can die.
This is a TRUTH believed by very
few denominations, and probably
by no other religions- a nother
PROOF that identifies the one true
Church of God!
The Soul Can Die
The Creator's book reveals, contrary
to fallible humanist teaching, that
man was made from the dust of the
ground, and this dust thus becomes
soul, mortal-like all vertebrates.
Man has continued to accept the
first líe in human history-Satan's
lie to mother Eve that man is immor–
tal and cannot die.
The soul is merely the breathing
animal. All ani mals are biblically
called "souls"-in Hebrew ,
nephesh.
Therefore, if man is a
soul as
in
Genesis 2:7, so also are
the dumb animals. But there is a
human spirit
(1
Cor. 2:11)
in
the
human soul.
.
This human spirit does not im–
part human life. Human life, like
that of aU vertebrales, comes from
blood circulation, oxidized by the
breath of air. But God reveals there
is a spirit within every human. This
spirit is not present in animals. The
human spirit empowers the human
brain with intellect- with ability to
acqui re knowledge, to think, rea–
son, make decisions, produce atti–
tudes of good or evil.
Human and animal brain are
fundamentally alike. Human mind
superiority comes not from supe–
rior brain, but from the presence of
human spirit within the human
brain. Animal brain is supplied
with instinct, not intellect.
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