The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-07-26

And unto Adam he (the Lord God said. cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and missiles shall it rbring forth to thee. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return into the ground; for out of it vast thou taken; for dust thou art; and unto dust shalt thou return
 Now there must be something wrong somewhere What do you suppose has become of the domin- ion, the power, the goodness, the purity, and the holiness with which God endowed man only few verses back, before the mist arose? Here we have clearly two distinct and opposing statements about man. One is that man is good, pure, holy and spiritual, has do- minion over everything, is created of God, and is like God. The other is that he is a helpless, de- fenseless, powerless creature, made of plain everyday dust from no particular pattern whatever. The only thing in the Bible that sep arates these two. differing accounts of mans creation is the mist No mention is made of the man cre- ated in the image and likeness Of God as having sinned and fallen, or as having been changed in any way. There comes the mist, and then comes the account of the cre- ation of man as about the most helpless and miserable creature one could imagine.
 You will remember that we started out to ascertain what is the true nature of God. Now comes the question. Which one Of these two creations, or men, de- scribed in the Bible as having been created by God, is like God? Both cannot be; that is certain. If we can determine which one of these two men is like God we can determine what God is like. The Bible from beginning to end is replete with answers to this query. Isiah, for instance, having knowledge, evidently, of this &C., count of creation which depicts man as made from dust and as having made the breath of life breathed into his nostrils, writes: i Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted of?' Job, com menting on this same man, this Adam man, this man of the dust of the ground, says: Man that is born of woman is of few days, and full of trouble He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, l that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. But man dieth, and was teth away. Jesus said: The flesh 1 (that is, the material mam prof iteth nothing We are not, then 1 left long in doubt as to what the writers in the Bible think about this dust man-this man of flesh and blood and bones,-this Adam man.
 "Of the man described in the first chapter of Genesis, made in the image and likeness of God and having dominion over all the earth the Psalmist write: For thou hast made him little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet Some difference here between this mar made in the image and likeness o! I God and the man made of the dust of the ground, who is depict ed as miserable, groveling, help 1 less creature! If we are to put any confidence at all in the Bible We are bound to the conclusion that this man of flesh and blood and bones, this Adam man, is not the man of Gods creating, anc that, therefore, mortal materia man does not represent God. We are bound to the further conclus- ion that the man spoken of in the first chapter of Genesis, who is de- picted as good and as having do- minion over all the earth, is like God. So, if we have done noth- ing else from this course of reas- oning, we have found that Goo is in no wise similar to that which you and I have been wont to cal material man. And thus, by the process of elimination, we, have abolished completely any sense of 1God as a fumanly circumscribed personality.
 Now, to face about in our req soning:: Jesus described God as Spirit, which, of course, has noth- sing to do in any way with what may be termed matter or the physical. Spirit signifies infinite, filling all space, ever present. ey- jerywhere. here and now, Jesus