Seventh-Day Adventist Fundamental Belief #7 THE NATURE OF HUMANITY

THE NATURE OF HUMANITY

Statement of belief:
Man and woman were made in the image of God with individuality, the power and freedom to think and to do. Though created free beings, each is an indivisible unity of body, mind, and spirit, dependent upon God for life and breath and all else. When our first parents disobeyed God, they denied their dependence upon Him and fell from their high position. The image of God in them was marred and they became subject to death. Their descendants share this fallen nature and its consequences. They are born with weaknesses and tendencies to evil. But God in Christ reconciled the world to Himself and by His Spirit restores in penitent mortals the image of their Maker. Created for the glory of God, they are called to love Him and one another, and to care for their environment.

(Gen. 1:26-28; 2:7, 15; 3; Ps. 8:4-8; 51:5, 10; 58:3; Jer. 17:9; Acts 17:24-28; Rom. 5:12-17; 2 Cor. 5:19, 20; Eph. 2:3; 1 Thess. 5:23; 1 John 3:4; 4:7, 8, 11, 20.)

"When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained, What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him?" (Psalm 8:3,4).
In this beautiful passage of praise, we see the value that God has placed on human beings: that God is mindful, He remembers us. He wants to connect and have fellowship with us. Unlike the rest of creation, which He spoke into existence, human beings were so special, so dear to God, that He stooped down and formed them with His own hands--the same hands that would one day be nailed to a cruel cross in order to save the ones He created.

Presented by: Pastor Ted Wilson

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A little lower than the angels or a little lower than God? It doesn’t really matter, as it is not a salvific issue. It is factually still a little lower than God, in any way. 😊