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Doctrinal Statements

Doctrine of MAN

1. I believe that God created man in His own Image and Likeness on the last day of creation, as the crown of His Creation. [Genesis 1:26]

2. Man was created with a two-fold nature- on one hand material, on the other hand immaterial. He consists of body and soul or spirit. That there are two elements in man’s being, is a fact to which consciousness testifies. This testimony is conformed in Scripture, in which the prevailing representation of man’s constitution is that of dichotomy.

   • The record of man’s creation in Genesis 2:7, in which, as a result of the inbreathing of the Divine Spirit, the body becomes possessed and vitalized by a single principle –the living soul. [Genesis 2:7; Job.27:3; 32:8; 33:4]

   • Passages in which the human souls, or spirit, is distinguished, both from the divine spirit from whom it proceeded, and from the body, which it inhabits. [Numbers 16:22; Zech.12:1; 1 Cor.2:11;Heb.12:9]. The following passages distinguish the soul, or spirit of man from the body, which it inhabits [Genesis 35:18; 1 King 17:21; Ecclesiastes 12:7; James 2:26]

   • The interchangeable use of the term “soul” and “spirit” [Genesis 41:8; Psalm 42:6; John 12:27; John 13:21; Matthew 20:28; 27:50; Revelation 6:9]

   • The mention of body and soul [or spirit] as together constitute the whole man [Matthew 10:32; 1 Corinthians 5:3; 3 John 2]

3. The creation of man constituted the creation of the entire human race, for the entire human race was present in Adam

   • Eve was taken from Adam; she was not separate independent creation. [Genesis 2;21-23]

   • Each man was created in Adam [Romans 5;12; 1 Corinthians 15:22; Hebrews 7:9]

   • I believe that man was created innocent and perfect in Adam.

   • I believe that man receives his body and soul or spirit at conception from his parents and that any destruction of that person before birth is murder. [Genesis 2:7; 2:22; 46:26; Psalm 139:15-16; Hebrews 7:10]