Discover From the Bible
01. Why are we here?
What is humanity?
1 – Humanity
Who are we?
Where did we come from?
Where are we going?
Source of these questions ...
These questions are the title of the painting at left by Paul Gauguin, explained in Wikipedia as follows:
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (French: D’où venons-nous ? Que sommes-nous ? Où allons-nous ?) is an 1897–98 painting by French artist Paul Gauguin. The painting was created in Tahiti and is in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. Viewed as a masterpiece by Gauguin, the painting is considered “a philosophical work comparable to the themes of the Gospels”.
Wiki explains that Gauguin attended a Catholic boarding school with a strong religious focus, and although he became anticlerical, these questions stayed with him.
More info . . .
I would like to have a pop-up form which allows you to fill in your personal answers here, and to return and revise them. But until the site is fully developed, I hope the download of a fillable pdf file will suffice.
What does the bible say?
(1) About the origin of mankind?
Genesis 1:26-27
26 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.”
27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
Genesis 2:7
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 being.
(2) About God’s provision for mankind, and their role in the world and its creatures?
Genesis 1:28-30
28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
29 And God said, “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food.
30 Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food”; and it was so.
(3) What does “created in the image of God” mean?
Genesis 1:27
27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
Ephesians 4:24
and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.
Colossians 3:10
and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him,
Psalm 8:4-6
4 What is man that You are mindful of him,
And the son of man that You visit him?
5 For You have made him a little lower than the angels,
And You have crowned him with glory and honor.
6 You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands;
You have put all things under his feet,
(4) What impact does the statement “male and female He created them” have on:
(a) general statements about “man” in the preceding verses?
(b) the image of God?
Genesis 1:27
27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
(5) What does the outline of man’s origin in Genesis say about the ancestry of all people?
Acts 17:26
And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth,
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