The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-11
BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.
IN HIS OWN IMAGE.

Genesis 1:26-2:25; Psalm S-Janu.
airy IL.
How different the statement re-
specttng mans creation from that de-
scribing the creation of plants and
the lower animals which the seas and
the earth brought forth! Mans crea-
ton was premeditated. God designed
man to be king over the earth. He
was to be his Creators image. not in
physical form, but in moral and in
tellectual qualities resembling his Gre
ator, a Spirit Being. AS we read, "God
created man in His own image" Not
a word here can be construed as i'm
lower creatures.
A Fall, Not an Evolution.
So far from teaching Evolution, the
Bible teaches the very reverse. st.
Paul declares, by one mans disobe-
dience sin entered into the world, and
death as the result of sin. Thus death
passed upon all men, because all are
sinners (Romans 5:12.) The Bible
represents man as the masterpiece of
mundane creation. God pronounced
him very good" Nor could we es-
TEEN it just that any but a perfect
being should be placed on trial for life
or death everlasting.
Not Two Creation Accounts.
Higher Critics claim that Genesis 2
is another account, written by a diff
ferent person, giving a different order
of creation-man created first, then
trees, beasts, etc. To US this is fool
ishness. Moses, having described crea-
ton in its logical order, merely partic-
ularizeS some of his previous state
ments. He declares Genesis 2:D that
he has already described the genera
lions or developments of things heav-
emily and earthly from 1.-THE beginning"
before there was any plant life. He
mentions that at that time there was
no rain. He again assures us that man
was Gods last creation, to be the
king of earth; and he proceeds to give
an account of mans creation, so differ
ent from that. of the lower animals
and vegetation. Man was not evolved
but Gods handiwork. He was not
spirit, but flesh, formed Of the dust
of the ground, with the spirit of life
common to all earthly creatures. The
Hebrew reads, literally, ''in his nos
trils the breath of lives"-the breath or
spirit of life common to all breathing
creatures.
Man Originally SexIess.
The details of human creation ipon,v
that Adam lived some time alone and
sexless. Some Bible students infer
from the chronology that it was two
years from Adams creation until the
expulsion from Eden under the death
sentence. The cause for the division of
Adam into two persons is stated: the
earth was to be populated with a race
of his species, and amongst all the
creatures none was suitable as COM
panion and mother of his offspring
Thus again is shown that Adam was
distinctly different from apes and all
other creatures under his control. He
was in the likeness of his Creator
Other Scriptures show US that it is the
Divine purpose that the sex quality in
humanity shall be dropped.
The division of Adam into two parts
left the leadership with the male, but
deprived him of some of his sympa-
thetic qualities. His wife had less of
the masculine and aggressive traits:
but the two were perfectly adapted to
each other and fulfilled each others
ideals. The fall from Gods favor has
affected both sexes, producing extremes
of coarseness and effeminacy, and rob-
bling the marriage relationship of its
ideal happiness. The Restitution or
resurrection to be brought about by
Messiah's Kingdom will not mean the
restoration of sex perfections. but the
gradual perfecting of each individual
in the image Of God.