Lesson No. 28 

Lesson No. 28 Origin of The Human Being

The study concerning this topic, according to theologians, is related to anthropology. It is necessary to mention two creative acts: the creation of man and the creation of woman.

Creation of man: Regarding the origin of man, the biblical account simply states the following:

Genesis chapter 2: verse 7: “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul”.51

Creation of woman: Regarding the origin of woman, the Holy Bible expresses itself in other terms:

Genesis chapter 2: verses 21 to 24: “And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; 22And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. 23And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. 24Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh”.51

Regarding the creative act of woman, we can appreciate how the Supreme Being uses His faculties to act according to His infinite wisdom. He did not create woman from the dust of the earth or from clay, as He did when He formed man. He took a simple rib from man's body and from there formed the one who would be his companion and wife, so that she would be part of man himself, would feel dependent on him, love each other as themselves and be both as one flesh.

To comment generally on the origin of man, according to the biblical account, we must acknowledge that it has been the most refuted point and the center of ridicule and criticism by enemies of the Christian faith.

How difficult it is to believe, from the point of view of logic and science, that a simple clay figure could have transformed into such a perfect being with a highly complex and ordered biological nature like that of a human being!

Materialist scientists, based on the theory of spontaneous generation, also called autogenesis, believe that only through a process of millions of years could different simple substances have come together by chance, and by combining, led to the existence of the cell. And through another process of millions of years, the formation of a more complex being took place, which evolved until becoming what animals and plants, including man, are today. Although this theory has been discarded by evidence from various scientific experiments like those of Louis Pasteur and others, it might still be considered a somewhat logical reasoning, not one of faith, because we believe that the same biological process to which they attribute all those millions of years was what gave rise to the existence of plants and animals. But in just a matter of hours and not by chance or necessity as they say, but by the command of God when He said: let it be done, and it was done.

Of course, it is not the same what chance could do, which does not foresee order or events, as what an infinitely intelligent Being with will and absolute power to do whatever He wishes can do, like God, Creator of matter itself; who gathered the known energetic elements in the formation of the atom, to give rise to its existence.

This same process regarding animals and plants could have been used by God in the creation of man. However, since it is a special case, the only being included in this narrative, which was made in His image and likeness, He wanted to shape it with His own hands and use His own breath to give it life and intelligence, to the one who was to be the king of our creation.

We must honestly acknowledge that a high degree of faith is needed to firmly believe in the theory of this sacred narrative. But I hope that the students of this treatise, who have well assimilated the previous chapters, have acquired sufficient knowledge about the faculties of the Almighty to have achieved a degree of faith that allows them to believe with full certainty in all that the Holy Bible declares about His deeds.

Nonetheless, the results of scientific discoveries declare that all the elements constituting the cells of the human body are also found in the earth, from which man was formed. The same has been proven concerning plants and animals.

Currently, science should be fully aware that both human beings, plants, and animals owe not only our origin but even our current existence to the earth. It is proven that plants absorb from the earth through their roots the different substances by which their cells are composed. These substances reach each of these cells where they accumulate, making them grow until they split into two and give rise to the existence of a new cell for each of those existing in almost the entire body of the plant. This is how growth occurs until the plant becomes mature and produces fruits composed of the same substances extracted from the earth.

A similar process occurs in humans and animals, ingesting the different vegetables constituted by many of the substances that compose our own cells. For example, when the creature begins its formation process in the maternal womb, it only achieves its growth and complete formation if it receives the necessary nutrition through the mother, who in turn has been nourished by the food the earth itself provides through plants and meats, as well as other substances that enter the food chain. Thus, the nutrition received by the mother is partially assimilated by the creature and brought to each of its cells, where the same phenomenon cited in the case of plants occurs. This is how the creature's growth and development is carried out. After birth, it is necessary to continue a normal feeding regimen until, due to the assimilation of the substances provided by the earth, it reaches all the natural conditions for procreation, leading to the existence of new individuals of its same kind, also conducted under the same order of the cycle mentioned. It means that initially the origin of man was through a transformation process, influenced by the effects of the life spirit transmitted by God, the inert matter (the clay) was turned into living cells, giving rise to a biological body with life. While currently, it is due to a biochemical formation process. The substances produced by the maternal organism lead to the formation of a likewise biological body based on the ovum and the male gamete, which owe their existence equally, to the biochemical effects produced both in man and woman. This is how new lives arise every day that owe their origin to the earth by the great biological process with which God has created them in His omniscience and great power.

It is worth clarifying that, due to the elementary nature of these studies, this has not been a deep and detailed scientific dissertation, but one based on rudimentary physiological knowledge with full scientific support, which we all receive when attending secondary studies.