“Men go to gape at mountain peaks, at the boundless tides of the sea, the broad sweep of rivers, the encircling ocean and the motions of the stars: and yet they leave themselves unnoticed; they do not marvel at themselves.” (Augustine, Conf. X, viii, 15, quoted in Brown, p. 162)
And perhaps we should marvel more at ourselves. Mankind was the very last of God’s creation; the crowning peak of His creative activity. Psalm 8 poses one of most introspective questions in the Bible when it asks: “What is Man, that You take thought of Him, and the Son of Man, that You care for him?”
What IS man? We can guess some answers to that question. But in our Daily Bible Readings the past couple of weeks in Genesis and Job, we find out what GOD tells us about Mankind — and after all we are HIS creation. There is SO much misunderstanding about Mankind going around, which can corrected by our looking to the Scriptures, and finding out what GOD tells us about Mankind in His word. Last week we saw some basic truths about God from our readings in the early part of Genesis. This morning we turn our attention to what the Bible tells us about ourselves: “What Is Man?” Continue reading →
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