Jesus taught us that "God is Spirit". (John 4:24). The amplified version includes clarification to the term suggesting ‘Spirit’ being ‘the source of life yet invisible to mankind’. That makes sense given Jesus would later say that despite all our diligent studying of the scriptures, we still need to ‘come to Him’ that we might ‘have life’...and it...’more abundantly’. (John 5:39-40; 10:10)

So given we are told that ‘God is Spirit’, and that man was ‘created in the image and likeness of God’, (Gen. 1:26-27) it makes sense to reason that we were created to be spiritual beings. We also just happened to have a ‘soul’ that lives or dwells in an earthly body. Jesus suggested in one story that our body is like a ‘house’. (Matt. 12:43-45). Paul teaches it is a ‘temple’(1 Cor. 6:19) and an ‘earthly tabernacle’ in 2 Cor. 5:1.

Since Adam was made in the ‘image of God’, we can conclude that he most likely walked and talked like God, possessing His holy attributes and character. He was...a ‘chip off the old block’ as we like to say. But God warned him that should he eat off this one particular tree that he would ‘surely die’. (Gen. 2:17). And we all know that Adam ate and separation from God came, because that is what ‘sin’ does...it separates us from God; always has and always will. (Isa. 59:2; Matt. 7:23) And apart from Him, we are/were ‘dead... in sins and trespasses’. (Eph. 2:1; John 15:5)

If you recall, what was the first order of instruction or command that God gave His creation after He made them and blessed them? “Go forth...be fruitful and multiply”. (Gen. 1:28) Now if you are going to mass produce something, you usually first create a pattern or template by which all that is made from that pattern will be identical; but if there is a flaw in the original template, then it stands to reason that all that comes from it will possess the same defect, agreed? So when did Adam and Even begin ‘multiplying’? It was after they fell in the garden and were separated from God. We read in Gen. 4 that Eve bore both Cain and Abel, and Cain would later kill Abel. Then, Gen. 5:1-2 opens up with this recap: “In the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God...creating them male and female and blessed them, calling them “Adam", (meaning Mankind). But then ‘sin’ entered in and brought death (spiritual) and separation from God.

Then we read in Gen. 5:3 that ‘Adam begot a son in ...his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth’. Do you see the difference here in whose image the offspring of Adam was made in? It was no longer God’s image, it was Adam’s. And why does this even matter? Because we read in Romans 5:12 that “sin entered the world through one man, and death spread to all men, because all sinned.” We will read further down that ‘judgment came to all men, resulting in condemnation...as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners’. (18-19). This is why the ‘wrath of God remains on all who don’t believe the Son’. (John 3:36).

You might say that while a baby who is born into this world is ‘innocent’, they have ‘spiritual DNA’ that is predisposed to sinning; this is a result of being in Adam’s ‘loins’. The ‘first Adam was earthly (of the dust)’. (1 Cor. 15:47). We are told that “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Rom. 3:23) which then helps explain why Jesus taught the need for us all to be...’ born again’. (John 3:1-7). And unless we are ‘born again of the water and the Spirit’, we will not see nor enter the kingdom of God, for ‘flesh and blood will not inherit the kingdom’. (1 Cor. 15:50).

Now that might sound ‘unfair’ to you, and like really ‘bad news’; but this is what makes the gospel the ‘good news’...as it points us to the ‘cure’, or better yet, our ‘salvation’. (Rom. 5:19) Now go look up that last verse to read, and then join me here tomorrow. :- )