The Mystery of Mankind

 

The Mystery of Mankind

D.P. Weary

February 2026

 

[Gen 1:26 NKJV] Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

 

The image and likeness of God

Man, or mankind was made in the image of God, according to their likeness. So, to understand the nature of man or mankind we need to understand what this image and likeness is.

God is three persons or beings in One.

The word God here is 'ĕlōhîm, the plural of 'ĕlôha, god. That means we need to understand that God is more than one being or person.

[Gen 1:26 NKJV] Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

[Gen 3:22 AMP] And the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us (Father, Son, Holy Spirit), knowing [how to distinguish between] good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take from the tree of life as well, and eat [its fruit], and live [in this fallen, sinful condition] forever"--

[Mat 28:19 ESV] Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

 

God is the Holy Spirit

[Jhn 4:24 ESV] God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

[2Co 3:17 ESV] Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

[2Co 3:18 ESV] And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

 

God is the Father - Jehovah

In the Old Testament God is called Jehovah or Yahweh [יְהֹוָה Yᵉhôvâh, yeh-ho-vaw'; from H1961; (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jeho-vah, Jewish national name of God:—Jehovah, the Lord. Compare H3050, H3069.]

[Exo 6:3 KJV] And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.

[Psa 83:18 KJV] That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.

 

God is the Son of God – The Angel of the LORD - Yeshua [Jesus]

But this Jehovah has a Son from both the OT and the NT. Now we can establish that God is a Spirit, a Father, and the Son of the Father.

[Psa 2:2 NKJV] The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers take counsel together, Against the LORD and against His Anointed, saying,

LORD = Jehovah

[Psa 2:4 NKJV] He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; The Lord shall hold them in derision.

[Psa 2:5 NKJV] Then He shall speak to them in His wrath, And distress them in His deep displeasure:

[Psa 2:6 NKJV] "Yet I have set My King On My holy hill of Zion."

[Psa 2:7 NKJV] "I will declare the decree: The LORD has said to Me, 'You are My Son, Today I have begotten You.

 

[Act 13:33 NKJV] "God has fulfilled this for us their children, in that He has raised up Jesus. As it is also written in the second Psalm: 'You are My Son, Today I have begotten You.'

[Gal 4:6 NKJV] And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, "Abba, Father!"

[Jhn 1:18 NKJV] No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.

[Jhn 3:18 NKJV] "He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

[Heb 4:14 NKJV] Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.

[1Jo 4:9 NKJV] In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.

 

In the OT, the Son was manifested as The Angel of the LORD.

[Gen 16:7 NKJV] Now the Angel of the LORD found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to Shur.

“Later in the text, it shows that Hagar understood that this physically-present Person was God Himself. When God Himself is physically present, we understand that it is a pre-incarnate appearance of Jesus Christ.” Guzik

“ We understand this because of God the Father it says: No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him (John 1:18), and no man has ever seen God in the Person of the Father (1 Timothy 6:16). Therefore, if God physically appeared and spoke as one Person to another in the Old Testament, we understand this as an appearance of the eternal Son, the Second Person of the Trinity, before His incarnation in Bethlehem.

The Angel of the LORD would later appear to Abraham (Genesis 22).

The Angel of the LORD would later appear to Moses (Exodus 3).

The Angel of the LORD would later appear to Balaam (Numbers 22).

The Angel of the LORD would later appear to Israel collectively (Judges 2).

The Angel of the LORD would later appear to Gideon (Judges 6).

The Angel of the LORD would later appear to Samson's parents (Judges 13).

The Angel of the LORD would later appear to David (2 Samuel 24).

The Angel of the LORD would later appear to Elijah (1 Kings 19).”

Guzik

In the NT the Son of Jehovah was manifested in the flesh of a human. His name was Yeshua [Jesus].

[Mat 3:16 NKJV] When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him.

[Mat 3:17 NKJV] And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."

In these verses we can see the triune nature of God. We see the Father, the Son, and the Spirit of God or Holy Spirit. Yet they are one God.

[Jhn 17:21 HNV] that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.

[Jhn 17:23 HNV] I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me, and loved them, even as you loved me.

Jesus prayed that their unity would follow the pattern of the unity of the Godhead, specifically in the relationship between God the Father and God the Son.

[Col 2:9 NKJV] For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily;

What was “in Him” that was the fullness of the Godhead? It was the Holy Spirit. The Spirit of the Father and the Son is the Holy Spirit. What makes the Father, the Son, and all true born-again believers “one” is that they all share the same Spirit, the Holy Spirit.

The Doctrine of the Trinity is one God in three co-equal, co-eternal persons (Father, Son/Jesus Christ, Holy Spirit). God is personal, loving, relational—seeking communion with humanity—and revealed supremely in Jesus as both fully divine and fully human.

 

 

The Image and Nature of God as reflected in man or mankind

The First Man – Adam and Eve

[Gen 1:27 ESV] So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

[Gen 5:2 AMP] He created them male and female, and blessed them and named them Mankind at the time they were created.

            Mankind was created in genders, male and a derivative of male, fe-male.

[Gen 1:28 ESV] And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

God made them male and female so that they could multiply and fill the earth with more mankind or humans.

[Gen 1:31 ESV] And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

 

[Gen 2:7 ESV] then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

Mankind was made of elements of the earth. Mankind was made alive or living by the breath of the LORD God. Mankind’s body is made from the material elements of the ground, [earth]. This “lump of clay” is made alive, a living being by God when He gives it a soul and a spirit.

Creature, being - nep̄eš - soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion, that which breathes, the breathing substance or being, soul, the inner being of man, living being

[Gen 2:8 ESV] And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

[Gen 2:15 ESV] The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.

On the earth that God had made He created a special garden where He placed Adam. This garden was a special place on the earth where Heaven and earth coexisted. It is the place where Adam and Eve communed with God. In Revelation 2:7 we learn that the tree of life is in the Paradise of God.

[Gen 3:8 NLT] When the cool evening breezes were blowing, the man and his wife heard the LORD God walking about in the garden. So they hid from the LORD God among the trees.

[Gen 3:22 NLT] Then the LORD God said, "Look, the human beings have become like us, knowing both good and evil. What if they reach out, take fruit from the tree of life, and eat it? Then they will live forever!"

[Gen 3:23 NLT] So the LORD God banished them from the Garden of Eden, and he sent Adam out to cultivate the ground from which he had been made.

[Gen 3:24 NLT] After sending them out, the LORD God stationed mighty cherubim to the east of the Garden of Eden. And he placed a flaming sword that flashed back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.

[Rev 2:7 NKJV] "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God." '

[Gen 2:4 NKJV] This is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,

[Gen 2:8 NKJV] The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed.

[Gen 2:9 NKJV] And out of the ground the LORD God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

[Gen 2:10 NKJV] Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads.

[Gen 2:11 NKJV] The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

[Gen 2:12 NKJV] And the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and the onyx stone are there.

[Gen 2:13 NKJV] The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which goes around the whole land of Cush.

[Gen 2:14 NKJV] The name of the third river is Hiddekel; it is the one which goes toward the east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

[Gen 2:15 NKJV] Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.

It seems that this Paradise or Garden of Eden still exists today guarded by cherubim on the east side of the Garden, apparently a gate or entrance.

[Gen 2:16 ESV] And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "You may surely eat of every tree of the garden,

[Gen 2:17 ESV] but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."

Adam was allowed to eat of the tree of life (never to die, he was an eternal being). But he was not to have knowledge of good and evil.

[Gen 2:18 ESV] Then the LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him."

Adam needed a mate, a mate from God, a soul mate to be his partner and to create more humans (fill the earth).

[Gen 2:19 ESV] Now out of the ground the LORD God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.

[Gen 2:20 ESV] The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him.

[Gen 2:21 ESV] So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.

[Gen 2:22 ESV] And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.

[Gen 2:23 ESV] Then the man said, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."

The fe-male or wo-man was made out of the man, Adam. The “she” was of Adam’s bones and flesh and had his DNA except slightly altered so as to have the characteristics of a fe-male and to be able to conceive and carry a new human baby, either male or female.

[Gen 2:24 ESV] Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

This speaks of a physical unity, a merging of a male and a female into one. The “flesh” of Adam and Eve was originally eternal, did not decay or ever die. This merging of Adam and Eve was a closeness different from that of mankind after the fall. It speaks of an eternal unity, true “soul mates.”

The God ordained marriage between a redeemed man and a redeemed woman is a blood covenant. This covenant is a solemn, binding, and permanent or eternal agreement representing a total exchange of lives between two parties. It is sealed by the shedding of blood representing life. It is likened to the covenantal marriage between God and humanity.  

[Gen 2:25 ESV] And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.

They were pure, holy, they did not know about good and evil. Everything was good.

[Gen 1:31 NKJV] Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

 

Mankind’s original nature

Mankind is like God, in His likeness. Mankind has a triune nature, Body, soul, and spirit like God.

God is Spirit

[Jhn 4:24 ESV] God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

[Psa 51:11 ESV] Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me.

[Isa 63:11 ESV] Then he remembered the days of old, of Moses and his people. Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put in the midst of them his Holy Spirit,

[Mat 28:19 ESV] Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

[Mar 12:36 ESV] David himself, in the Holy Spirit, declared, "'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies under your feet."'

[Luk 1:35 ESV] And the angel answered her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy--the Son of God.

[Luk 3:22 ESV] and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form, like a dove; and a voice came from heaven, "You are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased."

[Jhn 14:26 ESV] But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

[Act 10:38 ESV] how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

 

God has a body

[Exo 24:10 ESV] and they saw the God of Israel. There was under his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness.

[Exo 24:11 ESV] And he did not lay his hand on the chief men of the people of Israel; they beheld God, and ate and drank.

[Eze 1:26 ESV] And above the expanse over their heads there was the likeness of a throne, in appearance like sapphire; and seated above the likeness of a throne was a likeness with a human appearance.

[Eze 1:27 ESV] And upward from what had the appearance of his waist I saw as it were gleaming metal, like the appearance of fire enclosed all around. And downward from what had the appearance of his waist I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness around him.

[Rev 5:1 ESV] Then I saw in the right hand of him who was seated on the throne a scroll written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals.

 

Jesus

In a natural, human body

[Luk 2:12 ESV] And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger."

[Luk 2:16 ESV] And they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in a manger.

[Mat 27:58 ESV] He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him.

[Jhn 19:40 ESV] So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.

 

In a spiritual body after His resurrection

[Luk 24:39 ESV] See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have."

[Mar 16:9 ESV] Now when he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.

[Mar 16:12 ESV] After these things he appeared in another form to two of them, as they were walking into the country.

[Mar 16:14 ESV] Afterward he appeared to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen.

[Mar 16:9 ESV] Now when he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.

[Mar 16:12 ESV] After these things he appeared in another form to two of them, as they were walking into the country.

[Mar 16:14 ESV] Afterward he appeared to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen.

[Rev 5:1 ESV] Then I saw in the right hand of him who was seated on the throne a scroll written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals.

[Rev 5:6 ESV] And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.

[Rev 5:7 ESV] And he went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who was seated on the throne.

 

God has a soul - emotions, passions, activity of the mind, activity of the will, activity of the character

Emotions

[1Ch 21:15 NASB20] And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it; but as he was about to destroy it, the LORD saw and was sorry about the catastrophe, and said to the destroying angel, "It is enough; now relax your hand." And the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

[Eze 24:14 NASB20] "I, the LORD, have spoken; it is coming and I will act. I will not overlook, I will not pity, and I will not be sorry; according to your ways and according to your deeds I will judge you," declares the Lord GOD.'"

[Jhn 11:35 NASB20] Jesus wept.

[Eze 36:5 ESV] therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Surely I have spoken in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave my land to themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, that they might make its pasturelands a prey.

[Psa 2:4 NKJV] He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; The Lord shall hold them in derision.

[Psa 2:5 NKJV] Then He shall speak to them in His wrath, And distress them in His deep displeasure:

Remembers

[Rev 18:5 ESV] for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

Makes decisions

[Jhn 1:43 ESV] The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, "Follow me."

Loves

[1Jo 4:19 ESV] We love because he first loved us.

Reasons

[Job 13:3 NKJV] But I would speak to the Almighty, And I desire to reason with God.

[Isa 1:18 NKJV] "Come now, and let us reason together," Says the LORD, "Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be as wool.

 

Therefore, mankind also has a body, soul, and a spirit

Body

[Gen 2:7 ESV] then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

[Gen 2:21 ESV] So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.

[Gen 2:22 ESV] And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.

[Gen 2:23 ESV] Then the man said, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."

 

Soul – The inner being of mankind, seat of appetites, emotions, passions, activity of the mind, activity of the will, activity of the character.

[Psa 42:11 ESV] Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.

[Mat 16:26 ESV] For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?

Spirit

The eternal, most inner part of mankind

[Gen 2:7 ESV] then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

The place of communion between God and mankind

[Pro 20:27 ESV] The spirit of man is the lamp of the LORD, searching all his innermost parts.

[Jhn 3:6 ESV] That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

When Adam and Eve brought sin into the world, their original sinless spirit in effect died (became essentially inactive).

[Eph 2:1 ESV] And you were dead in the trespasses and sins

[Psa 51:5 ESV] Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

 

Salvation, redemption is a new birth of man’s spirit.

[Jhn 3:3 ESV] Jesus answered him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God."

[Jhn 3:6 ESV] That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

A new creation, a new man is born that is a child of God the Father

[2Co 5:17 ESV] Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

[Rom 8:16 ESV] The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,

However, this new creation is at this time still housed in an earthly body (flesh) with the old soul. The process of sanctification is the life process of the new born again spirit merged with the indwelling Spirit of God taking control of the old soul and day by day changing it into the likeness of God’s soul.

[Gal 5:17 ESV] For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.

[Rom 7:15 ESV] For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.

[Rom 7:16 ESV] Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good.

[Rom 7:17 ESV] So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.

[Rom 7:18 ESV] For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.

[Rom 7:19 ESV] For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.

[Rom 7:20 ESV] Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.

[Rom 7:21 ESV] So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand.

[Rom 7:22 ESV] For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,

[Rom 7:23 ESV] but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.

[Rom 7:24 ESV] Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?

[Rom 7:25 ESV] Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

[Rom 8:5 ESV] For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.

[Gal 5:25 ESV] If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.

[Rom 8:14 ESV] For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

The fullness of salvation and redemption

For those humans who have been born again spiritually [their spirit born again and merged with the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit] there is coming a time when the earthly, human body and soul will be changed into a spiritual body and soul. This new spiritual being will be eternal, pure and holy, and will be like the risen Jesus.

[1Jo 3:2 ESV] Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.

[1Th 4:15 ESV] For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.

[1Th 4:16 ESV] For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.

[1Th 4:17 ESV] Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.

[1Th 4:18 ESV] Therefore encourage one another with these words.

[1Co 15:35 ESV] But someone will ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?"

[1Co 15:36 ESV] You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

[1Co 15:42 ESV] So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable.

[1Co 15:43 ESV] It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.

[1Co 15:44 ESV] It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

[1Co 15:45 ESV] Thus it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

[1Co 15:46 ESV] But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual.

[1Co 15:47 ESV] The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven.

[1Co 15:48 ESV] As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven.

[1Co 15:49 ESV] Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.

[1Co 15:50 ESV] I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

[1Co 15:51 ESV] Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

[1Co 15:52 ESV] in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.

[1Co 15:53 ESV] For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.

[1Co 15:54 ESV] When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory."

[1Co 15:55 ESV] "O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?"

[1Co 15:56 ESV] The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

[1Co 15:57 ESV] But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

 

This is the good news of the Gospel of the Lord Yeshua. But, to become a son or daughter of God, you must be “born again” by the Holy Spirit. There is only one way.

[Jhn 3:3 ESV] Jesus answered him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God."

[Jhn 3:4 ESV] Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?"

[Jhn 3:5 ESV] Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

[Jhn 3:6 ESV] That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

[Jhn 3:7 ESV] Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.'

[Jhn 3:8 ESV] The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

[Jhn 3:9 ESV] Nicodemus said to him, "How can these things be?"

[Jhn 3:10 ESV] Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things?

[Jhn 3:11 ESV] Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony.

[Jhn 3:12 ESV] If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

[Jhn 3:13 ESV] No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.

[Jhn 3:15 ESV] that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.

[Jhn 3:16 ESV] "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

[Jhn 3:17 ESV] For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

[Jhn 3:18 ESV] Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

[Jhn 3:19 ESV] And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.

[Jhn 3:20 ESV] For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.

[Jhn 3:21 ESV] But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God."

 

[Rom 10:8 ESV] But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart" (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim);

[Rom 10:9 ESV] because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

[Rom 10:10 ESV] For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

[Rom 10:11 ESV] For the Scripture says, "Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame."

[Rom 10:12 ESV] For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him.

[Rom 10:13 ESV] For "everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."

[Act 4:12 NKJV] "Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved."