All of humanity was made to think, and believe that Adam and Eve were the first human beings to live on planet Earth, that isn’t true anymore, there was another man who existed even before life itself, rather than considering the advent of Adam and Eve.
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ADAM and Eve were not the first human beings to ever exist on Earth. There was a model of man that was there before Adam and Eve came to the limelight. It was that designs that was used to mold Adam into existence.
Let me commence this writeup thus, many Church folks are easily swayed from the truth because they have come to hold too fast to Church dogmas, doctrines of men. And dogmas, as we know cannot save anyone, only believe, faith and trust in the Word of God can keep a person safe.
It has become increasingly difficult for lots of ministers of the gospel to speak out the mind of God based on say certain revelations they probably have received from because the people have become so dogmatic, holding tenaciously to used to be so much that anything that comes new, is not likely to enjoy wide acceptance because we have set aside truth, and left out the workings of the Spirit-we don’t recognize the presence of the Holy Spirit, anymore – to many, that is a thing of the past. But God does not change, He is the same God, yesterday, today, and forever. And anything He does or says, stands.
The scriptures says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it” – John 1:1-5.
Biblical revelations most often are mistaken for heresies by those people who are held bound to dogmas, or Church doctrines. The scripture says, “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children” – Hosea 4:6. When we close up our hearts to God’s Word, we don’t receive anything from Him, and when you belittle or doubt what God has put in inside of you, you also miss out on His blessings or miss out on His desire and ability to speak to you.
When God speaks, He opens His heart to us, to reveal the depths of His Word to us if we pay close attention to His leading and prompting.
“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 the birds of the air…” – Genesis 1:26.
Thus, everything that existed, the scripture says were created but when it came to man, the scripture made it clear, “Man was made” not created. Now, what is the difference between those two words?
In English expression, the use of the word to “make” means that the production process, and the vehicle, clothing or whatever that product maybe, the design already existed. Whereas, the verb to “Create” usually suggests newness, freshness or innovation, to bring something that is not already there into existence.
Generally speaking, the word create means to produce or bring something into existence. Therefore, taking cue from our definition, the man was made from a model that already exists. In other words, the man was already there in existence even before the creation process began to emerge.
Otherwise, the scripture does not conflict with itself. Everything else was created but man was already living in the existential realm waiting for the full time of manifestation, and now was the time for God to manifest the man. God made the man from the model of design He already had in His store place.
Nothing was in existence until God spoke every thing into being, “God calleth those things which be not as though they were” – Romans 4:17 But man was made, crafted into the existing mold that was there and placed him is his position in the garden as a leader (tender of the garden).
What or who was that model, format, mold or design which was there in the Earth before it was rolled out into being?
Let’s go back to our main text, “And God said, Let us make man in our image…” So, this goes so far as to solve the puzzle. If man was made in the image and likeness of God. It invariably means GOD is MAN. And man is god – this understanding will put you on the pedestal to begin to work towards investing in the Word to have more and better knowledge of who you are. Adam played down on the power and role that God vested on him. This, he lost it all.
Adam and Eve was made strong, healthy, fully grown, and mature. They didn’t have to pass through the usual stages of growth. The normal lifecycle of the human being starts as a zygote in the womb and is birthed as a baby. Then, grows into a child. And becomes an adult. After which he grows into a senior (old age). But you will note that Adam and Eve didn’t go through those stages – they skipped three stages of growth. They were made already adults, then just grew into old age and died.
Adam and Eve didn’t know what infancy was like, they didn’t know what means to be a baby, and so they also didn’t experience childhood. In other words, they never learned to crawl, they never learned to walk, and they never learned to speak. They did not have any experience of what it means to grow because they didn’t go through those stages of life – they didn’t feel peer group pressure, and they didn’t have reasons to learn to work or develop their senses of reasoning or thinking. They received life automatically. They were made so perfectly that they didn’t have to learn or ask for anything because everything was already there at their beck and call.
Adam and Eve didn’t need anything, they had everything. They were a symbol of perfection in God’s creation. While every human being has to pass through all the stages of growth, Adam and Eve relished in the abundance of everything, they lived and operated in a system called in today’s world automation. They didn’t have to work for anything, everything came as at when they needed it. And they grew old.
God left out those other three stages of growth and development for Adam to figure out what and how to adapt to this life that he has just been given on a platter. God does not, has never had the intention to turn a man into a robot or something He will push or command around. But God put everything down to the man in clear terms. He did not hide the consequences if however, Adam becomes rebellious.
God took Adam round the Garden, and showed him everything, introduced him to all the plants and livestock in the Garden, which Adam had named the animals all by himself because wanted Adam to understand that he is a stakeholder, an authority in this business of creation.
For the plants, God communicated to Adam all their purposes, and uses and gave Adam and Eve permission to eat of any of them trees except for one, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
You may of any tree here in the garden, “But you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die” – Genesis 2:17. That’s the account of what transpired. When they are of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, they died spiritually as they lost fellowship with God.
Suddenly, the automated life they were enjoying ceased, everything was been made manual, they had to work so hard to be able to get something to eat, they began to have birth to their children in pain and sorrow. Cain grew up, untamed and became a wild ass, very competitive, and jealous. Cain became envious of his younger brother, Abel. One day, he lured the younger brother out into the field, smote him killed, and had him buried him away in the wilderness.
We don’t have any news of whether Adam called his his son Cain to reprimand him for committing such evil against his brother, Abel. All those lapses on Adam’s part combined to negate and mar Adam’s leadership role in the garden. If only Adam had gotten it right the first time, what a wonderful world we would be living in today.
The fall of man brought with it too many maladies: Sicknesses, diseases, hunger, poverty. Every negativity came with the fall. Man lost the divine fellowship he had with God. God also lost that connection He had with Adam and Eve, thus, He couldn’t function well anymore.
In other to reconnect with man, God sent the person He consulted with on the day He was to make the man, Adam. Remember God’s speech, “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 birds of the air…” – Genesis 1:26.
I want to be more emphatic on the use of the phrase, “And God said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” it is very clear who God was talking to, and the phrase, “…make man in our image…” goes to say that God referred to Himself as man just like He called us gods, “Ye are gods” – Psalm 82:6. God is a higher dimension of man, while man is the lower dimension of God – every tree gives birth to its kind, a man will give birth to a fellow human being. We are made in the image of God, and so we are gods (God’s property). And if we’re made in the image of God, and we are men, that insinuates that God, our Father is a Man (of a higher dimension).
Therefore, God is that Man who existed before the advent of Adam and Eve.
So, man had every quality to make him a god before the fall but man never learned to maximize his potentials. He forgot what he was made off immediately after he had finished with the work of naming the animals. God consulted with you, brought every animal before you and asked, what do we name this animal? And Adam would say, “Let’s call that a pig, a dog, a duck etc” and that has remained their names ever since. How Adam forgot to warm his wife against eating of that fruit is what is difficult to point at.
Adam became dysfunctional in carrying out his role as a husband, as a father, and as a mentor. He failed to communicate unity, harmony, kindness, brotherly love, and compassion in the hearts and minds of his children. His entire household was in disarray, and dysfunctional. “Being family means being a part of something very wonderful. It means you will love and be loved for the rest of your life.” This was not the case in Adam’s home.
When God called Cain to ask the whereabouts of his brother, Abel. Cain,“Where is your brother?” Cain sort of responded to this question with aggression and a sigh, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” What did Cain suppose he was? A stranger in his father’s household? The phrase, “My brother’s keeper” has such a great weight. It is generally understood to mean being responsible for the welfare of a brother or other sibling or, by extension, for other human beings in general. And those were the very words of Cain. He birthed those words from within him but he had not the understanding of the impact of those words. Family is a tie that should not be broken in any way.
All these was the account of the first man, Adam. But God brought back Jesus Christ to the Earth to bridge that gap, the family ties that had been severed by the fall.
I want to take you back to the first chapter of the book of John where we started our reading. In verses 9-12 of that chapter, it says, “That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.” – John 1:9-12.
Thus, God as Man existed in the universe before the coming of Adam and Eve.
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