NATURE OF MAN

1. Is man a unity – duality – trinity – or other? If other, specify.

Man is a unity.

Genesis 2:7, 17 - And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed innto his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. :17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

1 Corinthians 15:45, 47 - And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. :47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.

Ezekiel 18:4 - Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.

1 Corinthians 12:12-24 - For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. :13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. :14 For the body is not one member, but many. :15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? :16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? :17 If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? :18 But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. :19 And if they were all one member, where were the body? :20 But now are they many members, yet but one body. :21 And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. :22 Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: :23 And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. :24 For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked:

Psalm 103:14 - For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

Hebrews 2:14, 16 - Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; :16 For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.

Psalms 146:2 - While I live will I praise the Lord: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.

2 Timothy 4:18 ("me") - And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Genesis 1:26 & 27 - 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 fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. :27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Genesis 3:19 - In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

2. State the origin of man.

Created by God in His likeness (image).

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.

Genesis 3:19 - In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

3. Does man pre-exist His birth? If so, how?

No, see "origin."

4. Is man conscious in death?

No, death is a sleep.

Genesis 3:19 - In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Ecclesiastes 3:19 & 20 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.:20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Job 14: 12, 20, 21 - So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. :20 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away. :21 His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

John 11:11 & 14 - These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. :14 Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.

Psalms 13:3 - Consider and hear me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

Psalms 104:29 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.

Psalms 103: 15, 16 - As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. :16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

Psalms 22:29 - All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.

Ecclesiastes 9: 5, 10 - For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. :10 whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

1 Peter 1:24 - For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

Psalms 146:2-4 - While I live will I praise the Lord: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being. :3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. :4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

James 1:11 - For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

James 4:14 - Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Isaiah 38:1 - In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.

Job 14:1 & 2 - Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. :2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

Psalms 6:3 & 4 - My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O Lord, how long? :4 Return, O Lord, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake