The Nature of Man

The Church:
      The Church has as many concepts of the place of mankind in life as there are churches.  But the one thing that is always obvious is that the value of a man is in direct relationship to the weight of his wallet and the weakness of his independence.  Ministers often refer to their congregation as the flock, and like sheep, they follow the leader without question and under the constant threat of expulsion.  The support of the church, its employees, its property, and bringing in new money is the real purpose of mankind as represented by the main focus of the pulpit.  If one learns something along the way, as long as it conforms to church doctrine, it is tolerated, though seldom ever encouraged.  Try to test the truth of what is the church's doctrine and you are labeled a heretic, told you are unfaithful, and very often labeled as a threat to the truth you dare to seek.   See FAITH .  Kept in low esteem by constant ranting from the pulpit, it is only a strong will that allows escape from the chains of harsh doctrine and absolute group conformity. 

 The Bible:
     The Bible gives man an identity that can be summed up in one short phrase.  Humans are gods.  This will label a church member as a blasphemer for even considering the concept.  Jesus had the same problem when he expressed it to his church fellows.  He made the mistake of claiming that he and the Father God were one, which immediately earned him target status at a stoning party.  He then informed that, as Yhovah, he had told their forefathers that they were gods, which would make the stoners gods.  Here is the story:
     John 10:29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.  30. I and my Father are one.  31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.  32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?  33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.  34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?  35  If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;  36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?  37  If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.  38  But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.  39 Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand.          
      As can be seen this did not cool the anger of the crowd in spite of the fact that he was quoting from their own book:
     Psalms 82:6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.  7  But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
     So as the God of Moses and as the Christ, Jesus made clear the true nature of mankind.  Humans are gods. 

Humans are gods

Yhovah even said he made man to look like an Elohiym:
     Genesis 1:26.  And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27.  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

 Yhovah declared that man had reached a level so close to the level of the Elohiym that he must be prevented from becoming an eternal being:
     Genesis 3:22.  And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

 Yhovah places a guarding force to prevent man from getting to source that could make him eternal.
      Genesis 3:24.  So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

Planetary Rule

Man is given rule over the entire planet:
     Genesis 1: 26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.  27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.  28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.  29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. 30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

     Psalms 8:4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?    5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.  6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet.

A Higher Calling

Judging angels:
     1Corinthians 6:3  Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

 More in store for mankind:
     Hebrews 2:5.  For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.  6  But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man that thou visitest him?  7 Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands:  8 Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him.

And then there is this:
     Psalms 90:10 
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow;
for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

And  this:
Ecclesiastes 3:21
Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?

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