God’s People

       So if everything has an intention, and a pattern that should be followed, what is the pattern that God’s people followed before the fall? In this entry I will try and outline this pattern as is seen in Genesis chapters 1 & 2.

            Right from the beginning people have been focal, humans were the only thing created in the image of God (Gen1:26). Just that in it’s self gives you a good idea of how God’s people were to act. If we were created in His image, then we should reflect Him. God is ruler over all (Dan 5:21) and man is to rule over creation (Gen 1:26). There is unity within the trinity, and so there is to be unity among men (john 17:21). God has the ability to create (Gen 1), and so do men (Ex 36:4). There are many many more examples of parallels between man and God, but this is enough to show you that the life God designed us to live, is a life that mirrors God Himself.

There are several other interesting facts about early humanity as they lived out God’s pattern. There was no death (Rom 5:12), God’s people were blessed(Gen 1:28), they were naked without shame (Gen 2:25), which would make it easy to be fruitful and multiply (Gen 1:28), and there must have been a mistake on this point, but it seems God’s pattern was for people to be vegetarian.

Humanity before the fall is often thought of as being perfect, but to my knowledge, that’s not in the bible. At its best it only achieves “very good” (Gen 1:31). Not to say that Jesus was incapable of creating a perfect world. It simply seems as if greater story and a greater glory were in mind.