We talked about a biblical worldview of humanity in the last broadcast. Who are people? What does the Bible say about us as people? So, we are looking at several different facets over the next several days where Scriptures tell us what a person is like.
The first one is that we as people are unique in the creative order of God. We are not like angels. We are not like the beast of the field. We are unique. In many ways, I suppose we could say we are chief of God’s creation of all that He has ever created. So, we are very special in that way. We see that. We see we are special in the eyes of God because God Himself has chosen to create us in a certain way. He chose to create us out of the dust of the earth and later when we die, as a result of sin, we return to the dust of the earth. The body is very important in the creation of people. Angels don’t have bodies. Angels are spirits. Human beings, we have bodies, and we will have bodies for all of eternity according to the Scriptures. We will be given a new, glorified body to live with the Lord forever in His kingdom and we will always have physical bodies. So, we are unique.
I want to talk about one other aspect today before we begin to look at the body itself as well as the immaterial nature of humanity. That is the fact that we are made in the image of God, and we couldn’t put more emphasis on that if we had to. So many things that are going wrong in our world today when it comes to people goes back to the fact that most people do not understand that we as people are made in the very image of God. No other being is ever said to be made in the image of God. Not angels, not the beast of the field, and therefore we are unique. I’m for animal rights to a certain degree. I love animals and want to protect animals, but animals are not people. People are unique. People are superior to animals. Angels are a fascinating study and eventually we will get to that understanding of the biblical worldview, but angels are not people and do not have bodies and do not live on the earth like we do, so there is a uniqueness. They are also not made as far, as we are ever told in Scripture, in the image of God.
In Genesis 1:26-28 it says, “Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them; and said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.’” We are made in the image of God. We are told that here and in other places in Scripture.
