Fearfully and Wonderfully Made (Post 3 – the Image of God)
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- Jul 10, 2024
- 4 min read
Updated: Jul 16, 2024
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And the Lord God formed man
of the dust of the ground,
Genesis 2:7
The body of mankind is made up of dust.
The Hebrew word for dust is apar (pronounced: aw fawr). This term means dry earth, dust, powder, ashes, earth, ground, mortar, or rubbish.
Our bodies are made of the stuff of earth.
This allows us to be to have a reach into the physical world.
This also allows us to have authority in the earth.
Without a body, we would just be a spirit or a ghost, and even ghosts much be in covenant with a body to have a presence in this world.
Our body is not the strongest in the physical realm but they possess something that the others do not.
Our body possesses a legal right.
We have permission to function in this world if we are a living being inside of a physical body.
To legally operate in the earth, we have to have a body.
It is illegal to operate in the earth without a body.
This is why the demon seeks to posses one.
The arid-ness without a body (for those cast down).
Jesus said that when a spirit is cast out is wanders through dry and arid places.
Now when the unclean spirit has gone out of a man,
it roams through waterless (dry, arid) places in search of rest,
but it does not find it.
Matthew 12:43
The demon spirit was formed to inhabit a living body, but being from the kingdom of Satan, it has a malevolent nature. Once it is cast out by the finger of God, it wanders in a place where it is uncomfortable to its nature, a place where it can not quench its desires. Therefore the imagery of a "casting out" in a dry and arid land is used because the unclean spirit, not being in possession of a physical body, cannot satisfy its thirst.
There is no authority in a ghost, or what we call a spirit. A body is needed.
We call our physical body an "earth-suit."
The natural world does not hear things from the spiritual.
It needs someone who can reach into heaven and speak with a physical body into the earth.
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Psalm 139:14
The human body is an ideal combination of form and function.
We are beautifully put together.
Infants are born with approximately 300 bones, but as they grow some of these bones fuse together.
By the time they reach adulthood, they only have 206 bones.
More than half of your bones are located in the hands, wrists, feet, and ankles.
Pound for pound, your bones are stronger than steel.
A block of bone the size of a matchbox can support up to 18,000 pounds of weight.
Every second, your body produces 25 million new cells. That means in 15 seconds, you will have produced more cells than there are people in the United States.
There is anywhere between 60,000-100,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. If they were taken out and laid end-to-end, they would be long enough to travel around the world more than three times.
An adult is made up of around 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (7 octillion) atoms.
The number of synapses and cells in our brains has been compared to the number of stars in the universe.
“There are 400 billion synaptic junctions in a gram of brain tissue”
(Alan L. Gillen, Body by Design, 2001, p. 87).
Your brain never rests: even when you’re asleep your brain is working.
Carbon atoms form the roughly 37.2 trillion cells that comprise the human body – although that’s only the current estimate. Every single one of those cells will replace itself within 7-10 years from now.
A single gram of DNA could potentially store 215 petabytes of information – that’s 215 million gigabytes.
You are not the matter that makes up your cells then, but the information they carry.
There are about 50 trillion cells in the human body and nearly all contain DNA, a molecule that’s the blueprint for every part of the body.
Most of those cells contains a perfect blueprint of your body: an identical genetic code stored within the nuclei. The most efficient form of data storage we know.
Any two people share roughly 99.9% of the same genetic code. But that small .1% difference is enough to account for more than three million differences.
With a brain comprised of over 100 billion brain cells, called “neurons,” and 125 trillion synapses in the cerebral cortex alone. That’s more than 1,500 times the number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Psalm 139:14
pālâ - to be distinct, marked out, be separated, be distinguished, or to be to make separate, set apart.
"Set apart" but natural scientific theory tends to clump/group mankind with the animals as nothing supreme. But look at the scriptures where the Lord calls us to be set apart. We think sanctification when we hear the phrase :set apart," and that is part of it, but there is more. It describes the fact that we were made distinct that other creatures inside the sphere of creation.
yārē' - to fear, reverence, honor, respect, to stand in awe of, to inspire reverence or godly fear or awe.
The wonders in the human body makeup should inspire anyone to hold mankind in awe in awe of all creation. Mostly, to stand in awe of the One Who made mankind this wonderfully.
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