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What a Christian Believes

                If man is different in character and ability from everything else
                on earth, what distinguishes him?
                   He  is  created  by  a  direct  act  of  God  who  can
                     supernaturally  create.  Genesis  5  v1  '...when  God
                     created man, He made him in the likeness of God.'
                     The  mode  of  creation  is  described  in  Gen2  v7  'the
                     Lord formed the man from the dust of the ground
                     and breathed into the man's nostrils the breath of
                     life, and the man became a living being.'

                   He is created in the divine image of God  Genesis  1
                     v26  'Let  us  make  man  in  our  image  and  in  our
                     likeness...'

                Likeness.      God is Spirit  and invisible, Colossians  1  v15
                'He (Jesus) is the image of the invisible God...'   No man
                has seen God in this form.  Therefore, likeness means man
                was  made  to  be  like  God  morally.  Also  he  was  to  share
                fellowship with God. Genesis  3  v8,  tells how God came to
                walk  with  man  in  the  Garden.    'The  man  and  his  wife
                HEARD the sound of the Lord God as He was walking in
                the garden....'

                Man has been made with a threefold constitution,

                BODY, SOUL & SPIRIT.

                BODY.

                Genesis 2 v7  'The Lord formed man from the dust of the
                earth.'

                The  body  is  made  up  of  five  senses  -  hearing,  seeing,
                smelling, tasting and feeling (touching, not emotions).



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