Lesson 2 · April 11, 1896

The Life of Man

Topics for review:—

1.Name the leading topics of the last lesson.
2.Show by Scripture the source of creative power.
3.Give three texts showing the workings of Christ's power.

Notes

Divisions of the lesson: (1) Man Is a Higher Order of God's Creation. (2) Man's Nature by Creation. (3) The Life Given to Man.

Questions.

Man a Higher Order of Creation.

1. What is said of the creation of man? .

2. What is the signification of the expression "image of God"? Note 1.

3. What is said of the moral condition of man when he was created? ; . Note 1.

4.What other terms are used to express the exalted position of man in his creation? ; . Note 1.
5.What is God's glory? Ans. God's glory is the unfolded fullness of divine power and goodness, and is in harmony with His self-existence. .
6.How did man lose the image and glory of God? . Note 2.
7.What must take place before it can be again restored to him? ; . Note 2.

Notes

Man's Nature by Creation.

8.What is said of the creation of man? .
9.Of what was he formed?
10.After he received breath, what did he become? Ans. "A living soul;" the Hebrew version reads, "living being;" Dr. Young, "living creature." See Revised Version.
11.Why was he called Adam? Ans. Adam, or Adamah, means earth, or ground.
12.Of what did God tell him he was composed, and to what would he return after his disorganization? .
13.What does the apostle Paul say of the first man? . Note 3.

Notes

The Life Given to Man.

14.With what capacity was man created? Note 4.
15.On what condition was an endless life promised him?—
16.What was the essential thing to eternal life? .
17.Who is the source of that life? .
18.Who is our righteousness? .

Notes

1. The "image of God" signifies more than a physical image. It includes man's capacity for understanding God and His works, also the power for ruling the dominion (), and a condition for uprightness (). God made man in His likeness (), in His image () and glory ().

2. By sin, man came short of the glory of God, thus losing his power to understand the things of God (), to have dominion (), and the power to do right (). In order for him to again occupy the position for which he was created, he must be recreated (), with the desire and power to live the life of God, and be restored to the image of God ().

3. Adam, "the first man, became a living soul. . . . The first man was of the dust from the earth." , Syriac translation. "There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body." . The Greek words may be literally rendered: "There is a soulical body, or soul body, and there is a spirit body." "And so it is written, The first man Adam was made [became] a living soul." . The first man, etc. (), i. e., the first man just declared a living, or a live, soul (), "is of the earth earthy."

4. Man was created with a capacity for an endless life, which was assured to him on the condition of perfect obedience. He was made a little lower than the angels (), yet he was crowned as the ruler of the earth. Verses 6-8. By a law of his existence, righteousness is the essential thing to endless existence. . Life in all its manifestations is necessarily active. It can not be inert. In its nature, it is ever the same, and different only in its manifestations. . All living persons or things have just such a portion of it as is needful for their designed purpose or position. But the source of all life is Christ, who is the Living One. He originates and sustains life in all by giving it out of Himself. ; .

Bible texts in this lesson

Genesis 1:26 · Ecclesiastes 7:29 · Genesis 1:31 · Genesis 5:1 · 1 Corinthians 11:7 · Exodus 33:18 · Exodus 33:19 · Romans 3:23 · John 3:3 · Colossians 3:10 · Genesis 2:7 · Genesis 3:19 · 1 Corinthians 15:45 · 1 Corinthians 15:47 · Matthew 4:4 · John 5:26 · 1 Corinthians 1:30 · Genesis 1:26-31 · Genesis 9:6 · 1 Corinthians 2:14 · Hebrews 2:8 · Romans 3:9-11 · 1 Corinthians 15:44 · Psalms 8:4 · Psalms 8:5 · Ecclesiastes 3:19 · Acts 17:25

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