ON THE ORIGIN OF COMMAN MAN

Recently, there have been discoveries of craniums believed to be human but not quite human. Some have postulated that early kinds of human-like creatures had children. That is not necessarily evolution but hybridization.

Man is a special kind of creature.

Surely early manlike creatures had thoughts and the will to survive like all the other animals, and as such were intelligent beings. Research in the last two centuries has revealed that animals have intelligence but different levels of intelligence. Some believe that animals can even love. Of course, they would love their masters who they could sense, but the animals are not equipped with one human sense — the ability to sense God.

It's a shame, but translation has thrown Judeo-Christians away from the “sense” that is only within mankind; it was Adam’s kind who are above all the other animals, to wit: 

(KEY VERSE) God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the Earth. (Gen 1:26) 

Now, let’s critically examine what God said. First off, “us” is not in the Hebrew. So, who is us is not even a discussion, and the same applies to “let.” God does not require permission to create; it was by Him and Him alone. He was the soul existence. “Let us” would not include any form of either man or animal to help God, so only God is sovereign.

Translated “man” the Hebrew word is Adam. That was not just a man’s name but his kind as you shall see.

Some say “Adam” means the color red, so if He was made from the ground, it was assumed red clay. Pure clay is inorganic and if that is true, the first man would have not been organic and would have no DNA within except from God. I have proposed that godly DNA is Y-chromosomal but surely the “Image” of God was the chromosomes (Light) of God.

“Adam” is literally אָדָם, read from right to the left: aleph (el) - dalet – mem.

The first characteristic of Adam was “El” — the one true God. Adam had the very substance of God within, and it was not material, but some kind of power. The defining Power of God is divine love. Therefore, Adam could love God because God and him were both good… virtuous.

The letter dalet comes next. Characterized by a tent door, dalet implies many things. One of them is opportunity. Adam would have been the “elect” of all the creatures defined in Genesis 1:26. Dalet, from a creation standpoint indicates entry into space/time and matter. In other words, God within him would exist in another form, not just power but a mass of material. Adam would have been both a spiritual being and a material meaning.

Lastly comes the closed mem at the end. The final mem in a word indicates a closed womb, among other things. Of course, Adam had no mother, so the final mem is quite fitting.

Adam was simply the “son of God” meaning that his blood was the blood of God, and that He was the “house of God” in a genetic sense. That should explain the words of Paul: “So it is written, ‘The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit’” (1 Cor 15:45).

Jesus was the “last Adam.” Adam was meant to be the last Adam but because he sinned, Jesus would be. Jesus at his death said, “It is finished” (John 19:30); there would be no more “Sons of God;” and he was the last opportunity — the dalet, or door: “I AM the door; by Me if any man enter in; he shall be saved” (John 10:9).

Adam was meant to multiply; not by coitus, but by spreading the essence of God. As such, all men would have been sons of God because it was them that God elected.

“Dominion” is election. Rada (dominion) means “to rule” and “dominate”.  Specifically, it means “to crumble off” (Strong 2006). Adam was indeed a “particle” of God as it were, for God breathed life unto him, and that would have been a “crumb” of His divine Image.

Hence dominion has much hidden meaning in both English and Hebrew.

Rada רָדָה is spelled resh – dalet – hey. Resh is specifically the face and head of a man. Dalet is the potential, or opportunity and hey is the breath that God breathed things into existence. The resh made the creature “Adam” a man. Adam, having dominion, was the man-creature with God in him. None of the other creatures were that kind, so Adam was the chosen one of all the potential kinds that God would create.

In an earlier commentary, I went through the same critical analysis for “creeping thing.” Obviously early translators were limited in their knowledge. “Creeping” implies slow movement or growth and generally upon the ground. For instance, both vines and sloths are creeping things that slowly move on the ground. However, they are things of lower states as well — both vegetable and animal. For instance, a comatose patient is a person in a lower state of consciousness.

With that said, could it be, as I came to realize before, that the “creeping thing” in the key verse was man in a lower state of awareness? He would not be an “Adam” man but a “remes” in the Hebrew. The letter resh coming first indicates that a remes was like a man because the pictograph is the face of a manlike creature. In the key verse, Adam had dominion over the Remes thing. Remes, unlike Adam, had no God in it.

Adam was conscious, and aware that he was from God. Remes was not of God and would have looked like a man but not having the conscience of God. Remes would have been a beast which looked like a man but without a conscience.

Consciousness is awareness that one exists. Since God is the “Existence,” Adam would have known that God was his Creator and Master. Remes, a being without a conscious, would be a lower state of man, not Adamic but beastly in nature.

Who is it that Remes describes? The other kinds of manlike creatures: now-extinct hominin species. “Hominin” implies beasts that resemble men, or as science has it; lower states of man from which mankind came.

God made Adam, but his kind ceased to exist with sin, so what sins were included in the original sin? Cain was of the Wicked One (1 John 3:12) and from Genesis 4:1 that new kind, from the Hebrew, was ‘Is (man; pronounced eesh) coming from ‘Issa (the woman).

Cain would have been a hybrid of man and some thing else.

Even his Hebrew name implies that: Qayin, wherein the letter qof represents separation. Qayin קַיִן implies two parts: yod and nun, or the work of God and uncertainty from the seed of some Thing.  That “Thing” was perhaps the creeping thing with the Devil, Lucifer, in it — Lucifer within the Remes-man.

If that analysis is true, then modern man would have indeed descended from Neanderthals and such who would have mated with anything that they desired.

More than irony, the letter qof also represents monkey; not that we are literally from monkeys but another kind of manlike creature. “Monkey” would imply not quite human.

Because mankind is from the beast and “The Beast” (Satan), then our hybrid kind are depraved, but not totally so for by grace, homo sapiens still have God in their hidden parts — the soul, called the “heart” by the apostles.

Note that “heart” does not refer to the organ but the central hidden faculty — the “soul”. The soul is the potential vessel (or “cup”) that when born again, not of creeping things, holds the invisible Image of God.

The intent is not to support evolution for that theory purports that man has improved and the fittest survived. However, my analysis points toward devolution. Mankind (Adam) was not just “very good” (Gen 1:29) but glorious and after original sin (genetic) we all come short of the glory of God (Rom 3:23). Why so? Because we resemble beasts outwardly more so than God. What’s more, after all these generations of sin, within we resemble Satan more so than God.

Jesus came to correct both our origins and our future, according to the prophet Jeremiah.

We do need to humble ourselves and let the Lord light us up (Gen 4:1 — lift us from this lower state in which we were born to a higher state; and reborn of God.  Jesus carries God in Him. He is the same quickening (life-giving) spirit that was in Adam to make him a living being with a soul and can do that with us as well.

That we are like Cain with the blood of some beast in us, then if that does not humble you what will? Jesus is the only correction for our lowly, sorry state in this generation.