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Thursday, May 21, 2026
The Rock Almighty Wake Up Call. Were Adam and Eve Real People? And LA's Moment Of Truth And Yours?
Why do so many people have doubts regarding the Adam and Eve Story in the Bible?
In my experience the situation has come about because of two reasons. One reason is the widespread belief in the theory of evolution as an alternative explanation for creation. The second reason is the prevailing ignorance of the Bible and its history. This ignorance is largely due to the failure of the religious clergy, who have basically abandoned their flocks to atheism and the evolution theory.
These clergymen themselves have doubts regarding the Bible's authenticity. I personally had an experience during the 1950's that well illustrates this point. I was discussing the Bible with the Governor General of South Africa at that time. He told me that he was very good friends with the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop had told him that one should study the Bible like one eats fish. One must spit out the bones. I was shocked, because the Archbishop of Canterbury was the head of the church of England. Imagine, if the head of a church had that attitude then what chance did the members of that church have of ever learning the truth about the Bible.
The Clergy and Evolution
A further investigation of the subject indicates that many of the clergymen of those early days of the 20th century started out as God-fearing Bible believers, but they were exposed to a form of scholarship at their respective seminaries known as the "Higher Criticism." The proponents of this school of biblical criticism, because of their belief in the evolution theory, believed that religion simply evolved from what they called animism, (the primitive worship of the forces of nature) then to polytheism (the worship of many Gods) and then to monotheism (the highest form of worship, the worship of one God). These evolutionists assumed that the Bible is merely a record of man's evolutionary development. Although teachers of religions God did not enter their equation. They accepted the evolution theory as fact and because of the anti-Bible bias in their teaching, destroyed the faith of their students. Thus many sincere men that at one time had faith in the Bible, had their faith destroyed at these seminaries. After all one is supposed to believe what the teacher teaches. As all this occurred during the early part of the 20th century, today many of those men, now clergymen are of little use in building faith in the Bible. They are being looked up to, as representing Christianity, God and the Bible, but do not whole-heartedly believe in the Bible preferring to believe that man's religion today is just part of his evolutionary development. Thus the Adam and Eve Story becomes a quaint mythological story, and the Bible merely a reflection of what men in ancient times believed. That is why these men meddle in politics, looking for materialist solutions to human problems. they further introduced confusion into the equation because of merely using selected scripture texts to support their own traditional church teachings instead of allowing the Bible to explain itself.
Science and Creation
As I have stated in some of my other articles on this site the first question that should be considered in regard to a religious discussion is the question of whether one believes in God or not. The answer is fundamentally very simple to answer. That the universe and ourselves exist is not open to question, but the question is were they always here or did they have a beginning. Evolutionist are still trying to find alternative theories to counter the scientific evidence available which shows that the universe did have a beginning. The most recent alternative theory was "the oscillating universe theory. However this theory has been disproved by more recent evidence that the expansion of the universe is speeding up and not slowing down as the theory requires.
Now once you have a creator you cannot put limitations on his creative powers. The wisdom, power and creative ability to create a universe is so great that our creator could not be human or suffer from human limitations. Our Creator must lay outside creation and because matter only came into existence at creation, he must exist in a form higher than matter. That is why we refer to God as a spirit being. Questions like "who created God" are irrelevant because logic shows that nothing can arise from nothing and so the original cause of creation had always to be there, That question is only asked to create doubt in God's existence, and so once we have established that the creation had a beginning, and that God's existence is established, the question becomes irrelevant.
Adam and Eve & Population Increase
With regard to the Adam and Eve story, one has only to consider the rate of population growth to see that this not only supports the idea of one perfect human pair at the beginning but it also becomes a problem for the evolutionist.
If we consider the time available for population growth, Bible time allows for a little over 6000 years whereas the evolution time scale allows for millions of years. Which do you think is the most reasonable in the light of facts.
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In 1975 according to the Bible's count of time approximately, six thousand years have passed counting from man's creation.
At present in 2008 the world population is just under seven billion.
In 1975 the population was about three and a half billion.
The population reached about one billion by 1830 C.E. .
Now if the population rose from one billion to minus seven billion in a little over 170 years, and yet, the first billion was only reached after 5830 years (in bible time) then the rate of growth is escalating today. Bear in mind that this was in spite of the occurrence of wars and epidemics, which might have slowed the growth somewhat. This is quite a reasonable figure, yet 5830 years is a long time to reach one billion compared to the latest increases.
How does this fit in with evolutionary reasoning? It has been scientifically ascertained from archaeology that humans have been capable of writing and producing a civilization for at least 6000 years. This indicates that according to the evolution theory man has evolved very little during the past 6000 years. With mankind evolving so slowly it becomes apparent that the first true men could have arrived many thousands or perhaps a million years earlier. Which period of time is the most reasonable to arrive at the first billion? The 5830 years, which already appears to be a very slow population increase, or the many more thousands or even millions of years provided by the evolution theory.? Also remember that evolution claims that man's speech arose from grunts and growls and gradually evolved into more complex languages. The presence of the many ancient complex languages like ancient Hebrew and others also indicates that according to evolution theory, intelligent humans should have developed much simpler languages a long time earlier and therefore the evidence is clear that if evolution was true then the population growth would have been so great that we would probably have populated the entire solar system by now.
The present population therefore favors the biblical count of time which would make it reasonable for the Adam and Eve story to be the more logical beginning for population growth. Obviously one has to have two matched humans, male and female to start population growth.
Adam and Eve and DNA
What would be the chances of a blind mindless force like natural selection evolving two humans completely different in emotional and physical makeup and yet matched genetically so well as to be able to reproduce? Humans cannot reproduce with apes. The genetic code in the DNA does not allow it, The genetic match must be perfect. That is why the Bible's statement in Genesis is a scientific fact. Creatures only produce after their kind. Dogs only reproduce with dogs. Humans can only reproduce with humans. That is why it is logical to understand that the genetic factors in humans show that we are all related to one another no matter what racial characteristics are in evidence. Evolutionists only theorize that the "kind: barrier" can be overcome, however it has never ever been observed to actually occur. Therefore we may ask which is the more scientific explanation, the Bible's observation regarding the reproduction being limited to "kinds" or the evolution theory of unlimited reproduction that is necessary for evolution to be true? I would venture that the Bible is more scientific. In fact the evolutionist version is purely religious, being an article of faith without proof whereas the Bible provides statements of scientific truth,
By going back into the past we logically come to a time when the human race came from a single human pair. However some persons question how all human kind with all the different races could have originated from one human pair, but this is perfectly in harmony with science. The racial characteristics are merely caused by the fact, that as people moved to different areas of the earth the gene pool shrank and certain characteristics were emphasized.
What was Adam?
Genesis records that God created Adam from the earth. The problem with the religious teaching regarding this is the definition of man that the religions have ascribed to man. Nearly all professed Christian religions teach that man is composed of an immortal soul that cannot die and a fleshly body that is subject to death. However this is not a Bible teaching. Genesis 2:7 says that the man "became a soul" and not that a soul was put into him. Logically if a person becomes a doctor then he is a doctor and so if a man becomes a soul then he is a soul. By examining an Analytical Concordance like Young's we find that the word immortal only appears in the Bible four times and is never used with regard to the Hebrew and Greek words for soul.
By contrast when God judged Adam for his sin God explained what Adam was. He said "for dust you are and to dust you will return." (Gen. 3:19). The Bible hope for the future of man is a resurrection or recreation of the individual rather than survival of an immortal soul. Such an achievement would be child's play for the God who created this universe. Furthermore, the findings of medical science agree with the Bible's definition of man. Scientists have never found any entity that survives the body. Religions regard the soul as the real you, capable of thought and capable of influencing the living. However the thinking ability does not exist apart from the body and this is shown by the fact that if persons suffer brain damage it affects their thinking ability.
Were Adam and Eve real people? Evidently, the writer of Luke's Gospel believed that Adam was real because when tracing Jesus ancestry at Luke Chapter 3 he tracers it right back to Adam (Luke 3:38 ) the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.
The Jews at that time recorded very accurate records of their ancestry in their temple archives because their priests were selected from the tribe of Levi and the royal line was traced through Judah and David. Therefore when we read that Luke traced all things with accuracy (Luke 1:1-3) we can be certain that he was able to consult those records. As it was important for Jesus to have come from the line of David, both Mary and Joseph, his parents had to fulfill this requirement. Any Jew at any time in their history could check the manuscripts with the records at the temple and so confirm that the genealogies were correct, this also provides circumstantial evidence of the Bible's truthfulness and accuracy. Furthermore any Jew living at the time when Jesus was on earth would have been able to check the ancestry of Jesus for himself. As the three and a half years of Jesus' ministry, and the first three and a half years of the apostle's ministry after Pentecost was only to the Jews, we can be sure that the vast increase of Jewish converts confirm that the genealogy of Jesus was correct. It was only after the year 70 CE with the destruction of their temple and their genealogical records, that Jews today cannot trace their ancestry.
Once we deny Adam's existence then we might ask who was Seth's father? Furthermore Jesus himself obviously believed that Adam and Eve were real people because in his discussion on divorce he used their reality as a factual example. (Mark 10:6-12) . . .However, from [the] beginning of creation ‘He made them male and female. 7 On this account a man will leave his father and mother, 8 and the two will be one flesh’; so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 Therefore what God yoked together let no man put apart." 10 When again in the house the disciples began to question him concerning this. 11 And he said to them: "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, 12 and if ever a woman, after divorcing her husband, marries another, she commits adultery."
I seriously question a person's claim to being a Christian, if he doubts that Adam and Eve were real people, because the founder of Christianity accepted it and could trace his lineage back to Adam. Of course many clergymen do doubt Adam and Eve's existence so one wonders what kind of Christians they are.
Were Adam and Eve Married?
With regard to the question of whether Adam and Eve parented the whole human race, the scripture tells us at Gen 3:20 that Adam called his wife's name Eve because she was to "become the mother of all living"
Gen, 2:22-24 and Gen. 3:19 also answer the question of who married Adam and Eve. When God created the woman, Gen, 2;22-24 says that God brought the woman to the man. Then it says that man showed his joy by composing a poem in which he showed that he understood that the woman was of his flesh and bone and named her woman which means a man with a womb. He also referred to her as his wife and at Gen 3:19 said that he called his wife's name Eve. This means that God's bringing the woman to the man constituted the marriage ceremony at that time.
How about the first humans marrying their own relatives? From a scientific perspective this is also scientifically correct. Science has discovered that the genes in the DNA get damaged periodically by cosmic rays and other radiation collisions. This has resulted in the deterioration of the genetic code causing individuals to have a predisposition to certain disease. Logically if we go back in time we find less and less damage done to the DNA until we should arrive at a time when the first humans had very little damage to their DNA. At this stage there would have been no danger for humans to marry close relatives.
About Marrying Relatives
Some persons are under the impression that Adam and Eve had only two sons Cain and Abel, and so the question arises as to who they married. However once again this demonstrates the failure of the religious clergy who have not taught their flocks the truth. Gen. 4:25 says that Eve also bore Seth. At Genesis 6:3,4 the Bible states that Adam had "sons and daughters" and that Seth was born when Adam was 130 years old. Adam is further reported as living to 930 years old. Some have problems with the vast ages that the Bible supplies, but again it is scientifically perfectly reasonable. If our genes have been damaged physically so that today we are mere shadows of what we used to be it is quite reasonable to comprehend that the damaged genes are also responsible for the short lengths of our lives. In fact there are experiments being conducted today because some scientist think that they have discovered which genes control the lifespans of an individual. Of course there are also other factors which bear on this.
At Leviticus 18:7-18 God showed that with the introduction of his law to the nation of Israel through Moses, close relatives were not to marry each other. So God provided the first basic safeguard against genetic degeneration. Remember that the microscope had not been invented nor was there any scientific knowledge of genetics at that time yet God gave the Israelites a law that protected them from genetic degeneration. In this way the Israelites were protected from an increase of inherited diseases. Another example of Divine guidance as the Israelites had no way of knowing this fact without God's help.
Adam's Rib
Why did God fashion the woman from one of Adam's ribs? This was important to God's purpose. It meant that all other humans basically came from Adam. God made Eve from Adam's rib and the rest of the human race came from Adam and Eve's body through the normal process of procreation. So the act of forming the woman from Adam's rib fulfilled two functions. The first was that Adams and Eve's DNA were basically the same. Secondly, God introduced the principle of headship to man. Adam was created first, then the woman came to be out of the man and was formed to be his helper. or helpmate. Adams conduct could therefore affect all the members of the human race, which it did. If Adam had remained faithful he could have passed on perfection to his offspring. God withdrew his protection from Adam and so he began to succumb to the 2nd law of thermodynamics As he was now dying albeit being a slow process, we could only inherit the same dying process in our bodies. As he sinned before any of his children were born we all inherited imperfection and death from him. By Adam sinning he squandered our life rights and condemned us to this sorry condition that has been aggravated by thousands of years of falling away from perfection. If God in his mercy wanted to legally return those lost rights to us, so that we could have the same opportunity to live forever, Justice demanded a price of equal value to Adam. This was the ransom provision. How could God provide such a price without creating a new man and so conceding that the human race was a failure.? God accomplished this by selecting a faithful spirit son who was willing to perform this service for his father by coming to earth and providing the sacrificial offering. To accomplish this the son would have to be human. God performed a miracle by transferring the son's life pattern into the womb of a faithful Jewish virgin. As a perfect human son with God for his father Jesus now possessed the same rights that Adam had had when perfect. This included the right to have a perfect human family. His death as a faithful son balanced the scales of justice. After being resurrected to heaven he also now possessed the right to a perfect human family. The ransom provided Adam's children with the opportunity to be judged in perfection.
Once one accepts that God exists and has created the universe, it should be a simple matter to understand that before God created the universe he had already created other creatures in the same form as himself which is spirit. As the details concerning the rebellion that broke out in the universe has been discussed in other articles on this site, I will not go into details. Apparently one of these spirit creatures developed a bad spirit (attitude), rebelled and tried to use Adam and Eve's creation to challenge God's authority. God's way of handling the matter was to give the rebel a full opportunity to prove his case. His failure would then prove God true and vindicate God's universal sovereignty. Unfortunately we humans have been made the center of the issue by this rebel whom God labeled Satan, which means "Adversary" or opposer.
Without the Bible we would never have understood why mankind suffers today, however God fully intends rectifying the matter once certain issues have been settled. Unfortunately Satan has introduced false ideas to get humans to disobey God just as he did to Adam and Eve.. It is necessary for us all to get accurate knowledge so as to combat these deceptions. I strongly suggest that one reads the two articles on my site entitled "The Origin of Religion" and "the Scientific Accuracy of Genesis" which are a logical followup to this subject. If you wish to contact me, i can be contacted by e-mail at info@facethefacts.co.za.
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Wednesday, May 20, 2026
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Disturbing The Peace With Pastor John Amanchukwu on US Sports Radio - SPEECHLESS John Walked Into World Outreach Church Said This...
Now streaming on US Sports Radio In this message, John Amanchukwu preaches from Proverbs 6 and confronts one of the most uncomfortable questions facing America right now: what happens when a nation sheds innocent blood and still expects God’s blessing? From abortion, Planned Parenthood, and Margaret Sanger, to fatherlessness, critical race theory, gender ideology, and weak preaching in the church, this sermon argues that America’s deepest crisis is not just political or cultural, but spiritual. This episode covers Proverbs 6, hands that shed innocent blood, abortion in America, Planned Parenthood in black communities, Margaret Sanger, spiritual famine, 2 Timothy 4, pastors afraid to preach truth, fatherlessness, critical race theory, two genders, America under God, and Christian response to national decline. If people are searching for John Amanchukwu sermon, abortion sermon, biblical response to America’s moral decline, and why the church must speak boldly right now, this message goes straight at it.
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The Rock Almighty Wednesday Wake Up Call: Who is Mystery Babylon? And .....For Such A Time As This.....
Mystery Babylon represents a woman who is seated on a beast with seven heads and ten horns in the book of Revelation. The woman, who is clothed in purple and scarlet colors, is the symbol of a city built on seven hills that reigns over the kings of the earth. She holds a golden cup in her hand that is full of abominations, and the inhabitants of the earth have become drunk with the wine of her fornication (Revelation 17:6).
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Out of all the cities that could represent who Babylon is, there is only one that can clearly fit the criteria of the woman. The most accurate city that does fit her description is Rome, where the headquarters of the Vatican is and the future of the revived Roman Empire.
The Tower of Babel
It makes sense that the city is Rome instead of literal Babylon because of its rich setting apart from a desolation that doesn’t hold any of her features. When Nimrod and his wife Semiramis lived in the land of Shinar, they built the tower of Babel in the literal city of Babylon, located in the region of Mesopotamia, not far from Baghdad, Iraq. Genesis 11 tells how Nimrod and his wife started their own religions that would be handed down to civilizations to present day polytheism. Nimrod is worshiped as the sun god (or Baal), and Semiramis, the Goddess of Ishtar, is connected to Mary in the rosary. She is not the queen of heaven, but they worship her as the mother of harlots where governments make money off of her riches. Mary is not a co-mediator with Christ but was merely part of his design to fulfill God’s covenant.
Other cities that could fit the criteria of the woman include Jerusalem, New York City/America, or Mecca, the capital of Saudi Arabia and center of the Islamic religion. In Jerusalem, where the Jews practice the Torah throughout their local synagogues, has violated itself into becoming a dwelling place of idolatry. But no chalice is used in any religion except in Catholicism as it appears identical to the cup that she holds in her hand.
Every day around the world Mass is performed by a priest, offering a wafer and wine to members that believe it turns into the literal body and blood of Christ, known as the doctrine of transubstantiation. A priest cannot be elevated to perform that kind of activity because it would be a re-sacrifice of what Christ finished at Calvary.
The Council of Nicaea
Roman Catholicism became the first organized church that was built by those who abandoned God’s teachings. When Christ said, “I will build my church from the rock of Peter,” he was not referring to the Roman Catholic Church establishment — that was through the Council of Nicaea — which was to form an unbroken line of apostolic succession. Catholic clergy built a church to try to overshadow the gospel.
New teachings were passed down from Constantine (306-337) to form the papacy into a hierarchical system of bishops, deacons, and cardinals that supported him as the first Christian Emperor of Rome. That is when he underwent the council meetings to unite the Roman Government and church into an ecumenical body and to impugn the separation of them. He may have been the first Roman Emperor to cease the persecution of Christians, but far more people were killed for not being part of the Roman Catholic Church. Emperor Constantine and the Pope would conspire together to issue the Edict of Toleration that was upheld only to stand together as a Holy Roman Empire. How would the papacy then have any connection to an invisible church that is built from the rock of Peter?
Although Peter was the first pope, he was not the Pope of Rome for he did not even travel to that city. God did not build his church based on a hierarchy to hold his power; instead, he made it so that his followers could exercise the power of his word. The church was built physically to counter the gospel in order to preserve an earthly empire.
Ever since Catholic apocrypha became imposed, history would be replaced by reinventing the early Christians and apostles. When we look back at the early fathers, such as Saint Polycarp and Saint Justin, along with others from the 1st to 3rd centuries, Catholic historians made it look as though they were the ones persecuted by Rome. But they were not part of a system that is made up of seven sacraments and other unbiblical teachings.
Conclusion
Many Catholics believe that he is still dying for them in their own past, present, and future lifetimes based on how many times they take part in the Mass. But a priest still stands for that Jewish custom which Christ had to replace as the slaughter of the lamb. So how could you believe that the sacrifice occurs more than once at an altar, yet the doctrine of transubstantiation continues to be taught by the Catholic Church today? Now is the time to come out of her at last, lest you share in her sins and receive of her plagues (Revelation 18:4).
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
The Rock Almighty Wake-Up Call Tuesday- Is It True That God Has Made Me Like This? And The People Of God Are Through With Woke Nonsense!
God Made Me Like This
As I was working on this study, I took a break and turned on my favorite morning news station. The panel had a guest who claimed to be a Christian and disclosed that he was married to someone of the same gender. He went on to say something like, if anyone has an issue with this, then go to God because He made me like this. This resonated with me in the sense that this statement sounded right, and I’m sure those that listened to it agreed, but I have learned over the years that Scripture should give us the answers to any question or comment that has any connection to do with God. So, let’s see if what was said is indeed supported by God’s Word.
Many of us are familiar with the Genesis story of Adam and Eve. Let’s begin by going to this book.
Genesis 2:7
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
God made Adam’s body from the dust of the ground. I wouldn’t even begin to try to figure that out. And then it says He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and he became a living soul. The word breath refers to the breath that causes man to live, or in other words, it was the breath from God that caused Adam to live or become a living soul (a living creature).
But there is something else that God did to man when He made him.
Do you know what this was?
Genesis 1:26a
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:…
He made man after His image and likeness. The word image conveys to us the nature of Adam’s soul in that it was not corrupt, and as to its moral disposition, it could be otherwise called original righteousness. The soul of Adam was created in the moral image of God, in knowledge, righteousness, and true holiness.99
Genesis 3:8a And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day:
After Eve was made from Adam’s rib, we are told that both of them were placed in a geographical location called the Garden of Eden, where Scripture suggests they communicated with God and subsequently shared in His wisdom, love, truth, etc. Along with this, we are also told that they were made in the likeness of God. This word likeness refers back to the word image and describes it as being a resemblance in any quality, internal or external. So, as Adam and Eve responded to God’s communication inwardly, they revealed His characteristics outwardly in their bodies.
Are there any other verses that give us more insight into man’s nature at the time when he was first created?
Yes, there is. Further information is found in the book of Ecclesiastes.
Ecclesiastes 7:29
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
This verse tells us that God, as the creator of human life, made man upright. The word upright means that he was possessed of [the] ability to choose and follow what was just and right.100 How did Adam know what was just and right? He knew what was just and right because he communicated with the one God who was, is, and always will be just and right in the Garden of Eden.
Did man remain upright, or in other words, did he remain made in God’s image?
To answer this, we must go back to the sad story that took place after Adam and Eve were placed in the Garden of Eden, which tells us that both of them were instructed not to eat from one particular tree in the Garden called the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. What we have come to learn is that an angel, who we now know was the Devil, was also on the earth at this time in the exact geographical location with the purpose of causing one or both of them to disobey God’s command. Through his cunning, he deceived Eve into eating from this tree. She, in turn, convinced her husband also to eat from it.
As a result of their disobedience, there was one major impact that would affect all of their descendants. Do you know what this was?
Romans 5:12
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:
By one man, Adam, sin (human depravity) entered into the world. In other words, every human being born after that fateful decision would have a fallen nature passed onto them. Therefore, the uncorrupt moral disposition that characterized Adam and Eve’s original nature became corrupted with a nature that sins.
Genesis 5:3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
And thus, mankind was no longer made in God’s image but after the image of Adam, which is a morally depraved image. While his son would be born with the likeness (outward features) of his father and mother, his soul would be subject to moral disorder. And subsequently, a person’s sinful character would be formed and described in the following manner according to Webster’s dictionary. The peculiar qualities, impressed by nature or habit on a person, which distinguish him from others; these constitute real character, and the qualities which he is supposed to [possess] constitute his estimated [character] or reputation. [Hence,] we say, a character is not [formed] when the person has not acquired stable and distinctive qualities.101
However, some may argue that every human being is still made in the image of God at birth. Is this true? Please go to the book of Colossians, and we’ll find out.
Colossians 3:10
And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
The words of him that created him are to be taken as an analogy of the spiritual man or born-again Christian to Adam in the Garden of Eden before the fall. As Adam was created in God’s image so the new man, the new creation, the Christian at the new birth, was recreated in God’s image.
So, to say that God initially created mankind in body and soul after His image and likeness is correct. To say that the nature that I now possess, along with its propensities and inclinations, is from God is incorrect. Therefore, the insinuation by the person running for political office that God made him gay is unscriptural. However, what we can say is true in this sense is that the whole universe of things was made by Christ. And all created beings are without independent existence apart from God.
Some insinuate that there are other verses that support the conjecture that God made them in whatever way their actions indicate. Let’s begin by going to the book of Psalms.
Psalms 100:3
Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
This verse talks about the Jews who Know (to know by experience) that the Lord (Yahweh) he is (the one true) God. We are then told that Yahweh made them and not they themselves. This means that "Jehovah constituted us as a nation, His chosen people,"102, and not we ourselves (how altogether of God's grace, not of our working even in part103).
As we can clearly see, these verses do not pertain to Yahweh, making each of those who are members of the Jewish nation in a certain actionable way. The next verse that we will look at tells us that God created a nation of people whom He would mold into a certain form.
Isaiah 43:1
But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.
The book of Isaiah embraces all that was seen during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and [Hezekiah,] that is, during the whole prophetic life of the prophet.104 This includes the whole collection of prophecies delivered in the course of his ministry.105 In this instance, he is communicating the thoughts of the Lord to the children of Israel who are currently under captivity to Babylon.
They are reminded by God that He created (brought them into existence) and formed (to mold into a form) them. In order to mold someone into a certain form, they would need to believe in the one who desires for changes to take place in their life and subsequently obey his instructions as delineated in the Mosaic Law.
The psalmist also assured them that they had nothing to fear. Their God will see to it that they will be redeemed (ransomed by means of a price) from their captivity and restored again to their homeland. The price will be the destruction of Babylon in the place of the ransomed captives.
Those who claim that God made them a certain way believe that their perspective is supported by the verses found in Psalms 139.
Psalms 139:13-14
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
This psalm has been attributed to King David. However, there are certain aspects that appear to indicate that it was written by someone else either during the Babylonian Captivity or after it ended. "In the first twelve verses of this [psalm] the author celebrates God's perfect knowledge of man's thoughts and actions; and the reason of this wonderful knowledge, namely, that God is the Maker of man.106 Now, let’s take a look at these verses.
This person goes on to say that God hast possessed (owned; created) my reins (kidneys; the whole body; conscience; personality; inward parts). There it is. What meaning should be used when talking about this persons’ reins? I would say that it depends on the context or what do the other verses that accompany it talk about.
He goes on to say that God has covered (woven) him in his mother’s womb. The word woven means that God had put his parts together, as one who weaves cloth or who makes a basket.107 With this additional insight, we could suggest that the word reins refer to either the whole body and/or the inward parts.
However, he that said God made him in a particular way would say that God has possessed (created) his reins (his personality).
This appears to be a possible conclusion, but unfortunately, it doesn’t take into account certain things. One of which is that the person who wrote this psalm was not only Jewish but someone who believed in Yahweh as He revealed Himself to him as his ancestor Abraham.
Romans 4:1-3 What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God. For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
Abraham, as to what he achieved by his flesh (circumcision), was found not to be justified (declared righteous; accepted as righteous) by his works (his own efforts). However, because he believed God (of trust in and acceptance of God's blessings108; of his unwavering assurance that what God had promised he would perform109, i.e., that he would be a father of many nations; that his posterity should be like the stars of heaven110, and that unto him and his descendants would be given land for an inheritance), it was counted unto him (put to his account; credited to his account) righteousness (to regard and treat him in connection with this as a righteous man; as one who was admitted to the favor and friendship of God110; a seal of righteousness was put on him).
Abraham, at one time, was an unbeliever whose sin nature characterized his thinking, speaking, and actions. And at some point in time, he believed in what God declared to him and subsequently in Him as the one true God. This caused him to become a new person, one who had become a friend of His. So, with these thoughts in mind, we could say that the Lord possessed (owned; created) his reins (his personality).
What this suggests is that the psalmist’s personality was owned and thus created by Yahweh through cultivation and development by means of many areas such as obedience in following the godly instructions given by Israel’s leaders along with adherence to the tenets of the Mosaic Law. This tells us that the psalmist’s new personality was formed by the appropriation of divinely instituted principles.
We could conclude that at birth, sin or the sin nature is passed on. However, when someone believes in Yahweh in the Old Testament or repents to God the Father and believes in His Son in the New Testament, they become a new person whose new personality is developed as they appropriate God’s perspective for spiritual growth.
Now that we know what sexual practices are condoned by God and which ones are not, along with the fact that all of us have a sin nature that has inclinations and passions in many areas, especially in the sexual realm, which is the result of the fall of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, we have a significant question before us. How do we as Christians learn how to no longer be in subjection to the cravings and desires of our flesh? We’ll find this out in the next chapter.
Endnotes
99Adam Clarke's Commentary.
100 The Pulpit Commentary.
101American Dictionary of the English Language. 6 October 2021 .
102 Bible Exposition Commentary/Old Testament, 2004. BIBLESOFT. WEB. 2 October 2021 ˂http://www.biblesoft.com>.
103 Jamieson, Faucet, and Brown Commentary Pc Study Bible version 5, 2005. BIBLESOFT.
WEB. 2 October 2021 ˂http://www.biblesoft.com>.
104Barnes.
105Adam Clarke’s Commentary Pc Study Bible version 5, 2004. BIBLESOFT. WEB. 3 October 2021 ˂http://www.biblesoft.com>.
106Adam Clarke's Commentary.
107Barnes.
108Weust’s Word Studies from the Greek New Testament.
109Barnes.
110Weust.
111Barnes.
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