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The Nature of Man

The 07th Doctrine

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The Nature of Man

Man and woman were made in the image of God with individuality, the power and freedom to think and to do.

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The Nature of Man

Genesis 1:26-27 (KJV)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.

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The Nature of Man

Genesis 1:26-27 (KJV)27 So God created man

in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. and woman were made in the image of God with individuality, the power and freedom to think and to do.

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The Nature of Man

Though created free beings, each is an indivisible unity of body, mind, and spirit, dependent upon God for life and breath and all else.

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The Nature of Man

Psa 8:4-5 KJV(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.

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The Nature of Man

Psa 8:4-5 KJVPsa 8:6-7 KJV(6) Thou madest him

to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

(7) All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

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The Nature of Man

Psa 8:8 KJV(8) The fowl of the

air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

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The Nature of Man

When our first parents disobeyed God, they denied their dependence upon Him and fell from their high position under God.

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The Nature of Man

Act 17:24-25 KJVGod that made the

world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;

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The Nature of Man

Act 17:26-27 KJV(26) And hath made of

one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

(27) That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:

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The Nature of Man

Act 17:28 KJV(28) For in him we

live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

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The Nature of Man

The image of God in them was marred and they became subject to death.

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The Nature of Man

The image of God in them was marred and they became subject to death.Read Genesis Chapter 3

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The Nature of Man

Psa 51:5 KJVBehold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

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The Nature of Man

Psa 51:5 KJVBehold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

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The Nature of Man

Their descendants share this fallen nature and its consequences

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The Nature of Man

Rom 5:12-13 KJV(12)Wherefore, as by

one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

(13)For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

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The Nature of ManRom 5:14-15 KJVNevertheless death reigned

from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.

But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

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The Nature of ManRom 5:16-17 KJV(16) And not as it was by

one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.

(17) For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)

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The Nature of Man

They are born with weaknesses and tendencies to evil.

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The Nature of ManRom 5:16-17 KJV(16) And not as it was by

one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.

(17) For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)

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The Nature of Man

2Co 5:19-20 KJV(19) To wit, that God was in

Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

(20) Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.

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The Nature of Man

But God in Christ reconciled the world to Himself and by His Spirit restores in penitent mortals the image of their Maker.

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The Nature of Man

1Jn 4:7-8 KJV(7) Beloved, let us love

one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

(8) He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

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The Nature of Man

1Jn 4:11 KJV(11) Beloved, if God so

loved us, we ought also to love one another.

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The Nature of Man

1Jn 4:20 KJV(20) If a man say, I love

God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

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The Nature of Man

Created for the glory of God, they are called to love Him and one another, and to care for their environment.

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The Nature of Man

Gen 2:15 KJV(15) And the LORD God

took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

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Seventh-day Adventist Believe: A Biblical Exposition of Fundamental Doctrines, PPPA 2005