1. Created in the image of God.
- Man was not created
- God, in His love and grace, molded the first man “in His image”, referring to man’s personality, mind, will, emotions, and freedom, rather than his
- God created man with the ability to
2. Filled by the Spirit
- No other part of
- Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person. - Genesis 2:7 (NLT)
- God
- Then he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit”. - John 20:22 (NLT)
- God’s breathing into man transformed man into a
3. Created Other-Oriented
- Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him.” - Genesis 2:18 (NLT)
- God created man for relationships and to
- So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals. But for Adam no suitable helper was found. So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh. Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame. - Genesis 2:20-25 (NLT)
- “Not made out of his head to top him, not out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved.” Matthew Henry
- God created marriage to be
- Marriage between a man and woman is the