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Study Section 12: Doctrine of Man and Sin

12.1 Connect.

If you look around, there sure is a lot of things wrong with this world. People are suffering
everywhere. Life is difficult and work is hard. Men are mean to one another. Pain and death
are everywhere. Is this God’s plan for His creation…that we all should suffer so? Today we will
find out that God did not create the world to suffer. Man’s sinful rebellion again God brought
all this on. We are to blame. Let’s discover how we ended up this way….

12.2 Objectives:

1. The student should be able to describe why both evolution and creation both cannot be true.

2. The student should be able to describe God’s judgment of mankind through the flood and the
consequences of this cataclysmic event, even today.

3. The student should be able to explain the nature of man and how sin has altered everything.

12.3 The Doctrine of Man and Sin

Man is a special creation of God and unique among all God’s creation in that
He created man in His own image (Gen.1:26,27). Man is not an animal.
While his body may be similar to those of the animal kingdom, the Bible
distinguishes him as separate from all the animals. The likeness of his
physical body simply demonstrates that the Designer used a similar design for
all his creatures he placed on earth, a design that functioned perfectly in earth’s
environment.

The creation of all living things and man is described in detail in Genesis 1 and 2.

Many educators and scientists today claim man was not specially created by God, but is a product of
random chance. They believe four major tenets:

1. Life spontaneously came into being by rote change. There is NO GOD who directed this process.

2. All life forms came from a common ancestor and therefore all life forms are related.

3. Changes within the genetic information have occurred over time by way of mutations or genetic
drift and these changes are passed to the progeny (offspring).

4. Through the process of natural selection, a change that gives a creature a differential advantage
over it competitors for food and survival will be advanced. That change will make that creature more

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