The Physical and Spiritual Condition of the Common Man
Although the ‘common man’ has been artistically and musically lauded over the ages to celebrate the spirit of determination against great adversarial odds, almost all see the ‘common man’ through the eyes of ‘uncommon men.’ God did not create man to be ‘common.’ He created man to be ‘uncommon.’
I am thinking of Aaron Copeland’s musical masterpiece called ‘Fanfare for the Common Man,’ and it is almost inhuman to even suggest that the ‘common man’ is not worthy to receive such praise and adulation. You see, I was one of many who stood before students teaching the glory within the ‘common man’ through his architecture, his art, his music, his literature, and his military historical endeavors and conquests. That was before I understood that God is a Jealous God, and glory alone belongs to Him. God did not create man to be ‘common.’ He created man to be ‘uncommon.’ Man was created in the image of God.
At Adam’s creation, man (in Adam) was very special, one of a kind, uniquely created for a uniquely created environment to sustain a creature able to walk with, talk with, and communicate with The God of the Universe. I would say that this man (Adam) was not a common man at his creation. Adam was highly intelligent, (IQ levels outside of the range of charts that would make MENSA members appear as simpletons) a perfect physical specimen, a product of perfect neurological wiring, able to categorize the animal kingdom, to reason at the ultimate level, and he could love another creature outside of his own existence; however, Adam was deliberately created by God below the status of the Realm of the Created Angels. He was not created at the same physical level of the Angels, in strength, endurance, status, position or purpose. Adam was created with something that the Angels were not created with: the capability to die.
Adam (at creation) WAS as an ‘uncommon man,’ but he became a ‘common man’ when he willingly and unhesitatingly rebelled against his Creator and erroneously believed that ye shall be as gods encouraged by the lying words, Ye shall not surely die. There it is, the creation and fall of man summarized simply in one paragraph. But, I did leave out a few basic principles: God had given His prime dust-to-human masterpiece a command: obey and live, disobey and die. Before Adam fell from his position of the ‘uncommon man’ to ‘common man’ he was also presented with two realm shattering concepts: good and evil. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. (Genesis 2:17) Adam already knew ‘good’ for he knew the goodness of God in his own creation, His care, and in His revealing of His glory and His image to Adam. It is no light thing to know good, but to have the knowledge of evil one must experience evil itself. Ah . . . “I, there’s the rub.”
The man of our original blood line (Adam) was presented with life eternal or the knowledge of good and evil, and guess, go ahead and guess, com’on guess, what was man drawn to? Yup, you got it right. And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. (Genesis 2:9) And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:(Genesis 2:16) But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. (Genesis 2:17) And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: (Genesis 3:22)
The Almighty Creator offered Adam eternal life or death, and guess what Adam was drawn to. Now don’t be too hard on our father Adam, because millions over thousands of years have done the same thing. They loved the knowledge of evil. Don’t you dare judge God. He has from the very beginning offered life eternal to man, so much so that He cloaked His glory and came to earth in the manifestation of His Son Jesus Christ and offered Himself on the tree of death (the cross of Calvary) to give life to all.
See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; (Deuteronomy 30:15)
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, [that] I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: (Deuteronomy 30:19)
God sees the ‘common man’ as deaf, blind, rebellious, foolish, and without understanding. Let me rephrase this: God sees the unrepentant sinner as deaf, blind, rebellious, foolish and without understanding. Yes, after Adam’s loss (excuse me, it wasn’t a loss as much as it was Adam’s refusal of God’s goodness) he was changed from a unique and uncommon creation to a deaf, blind, rebellious, foolish, spiritually dead, and soon to be physically dead forefather and root of the first dust-to-human creation of a new race called mankind. So . . . therefore, boys and girls (another WOW from me — ‘boys and girls’— scientifically XY and XX —what heresy to say ‘boys and girls’) . . . that is where we came from.
We (through Adam) were once unique, special and uncommon. How the mighty has fallen. Now, we are encouraged to be neither a ‘common man,’ nor an ‘uncommon man,’ but to be beast like, and consequently being beast like we will be more suited to worship the man of sin called the Beast. Mankind has been primed and prepared to accept without question to fit into a beast-like world environment of thoughtlessness and actions suitable for the new world order: the Age of the Beast.
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. (Revelation 13:17) Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number [is] Six hundred threescore [and] six. (Revelation 13:18)
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