Who is man?

Man is one of the creations of God. God created this entire universe in six literal days (Gen 1). Of all the creations, God created man specifically in His image.

Then 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 birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. (Gen 1:26-27)

The image of God in man is the reason for his ability to communicate with God and other human beings using language and to think rationally like God. The reason why God has created man is to glorify Him and to enjoy Him forever (Rev 4:11)

Thus Psalmist explains the humble estate of man and the glory with which God has bestowed upon him through the following verses:

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas. (Psa 8:3-8)

Yet, because of Satan’s deception (Gen 3:1), Adam and Eve had sinned against God and transgressed His command, due to which they received the curse (Gen 3:16-19). Because of it, the entire human race has the curse of God (Rom 5:12,13).

Thus “as it is written: "None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one." "Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive." "The venom of asps is under their lips." "Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness." "Their feet are swift to shed blood; in their paths are ruin and misery, and the way of peace they have not known.", "There is no fear of God before their eyes." (Rom 3:10-18)

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