Biblical Anthropology (Man-Who he is at its origin)

Biblical Study of Man

1. ANTHROPOLOGY its meaning Anthropology is the study of humankind (from the Gk. anthrōpos , “man” or “mankind”). To properly understand man, one must do so from a Bible-based and God-centered perspective.

2. Part 1: What Is Man? Psalm 8:3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, 4 what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him? 5 You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. ? Creature

3. You made him 1. Man is God’s Creature

4. A little lower than… heavenly beings Crowned with… honor and glory 1. Man is God’s Creature

5. 1. Man is God’s Creature There are two creation accounts: Genesis 1:26-27 and Genesis 2:7

6. Genesis 1:26-27 Genesis 1:26-27 focuses on Man as the “IMAGE BEARER OF GOD”

7. 26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. Genesis 1:26-27 Image has something to do with the word “ rule over ” (dominion)

8. 2. What is God’s Image? Not Physical — God has no body! God is Spirit (John 4:24)

9. 2. What is God’s Image? Not Physical — God has no body! God is Spirit (John 4:24) Therefore, God’s image consists of an immaterial aspect of man’s being: 1 (Gods Image) 2 (Gods Likeness)

10. God’s Image Resemblance of PERSON A person is the kind of entity that has the moral right to make its own life-choices, A person is a being who has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness,

11. God’s Image PERSON , has: Intellect Emotion Will, Capacity to select & dominate (Gen 1:28-30) The capacity to think The capacity to feel The capacity to choose

12. God’s Image Ang Dios ay PERSONA Ginawa nya ang TAO katulad sa kanya na PERSONA: May Pag- iisip May Damdamin May Desisyon