WHAT IS MAN

WHAT IS MAN THAT GOD IS MINDFUL OF US

 

Hidden in the word “man” in the Bible is a dichotomy. Whereas Adam represents the highest potential of mankind, Ish signifies a gender-specific or relational role, often used only after the creation of Eve.

Looking at the Hebrew words, Adam, therefore, is the highest state of man — immortal —while Ish is mortal man. Adam would be glorious man and Ish mortal. Adam was of God whereas Ish was of both the Wicked One (1 John 3:12) and from Isha, “Eve” — the mother (ame) of all living (khahee; Gen 3:20). Eve is giver of Life (khav-vaw), using the Hebrew pronunciations rather than spellings.

Hence, Eve took dominion (Gen 1:26) from Adam for herself, and she became the “god” just as the Serpent warned (Gen 3:5). Consider now the transition from man, Adam, and man, Ish; to wit:

Adam knew (yada) Eve his wife (Isha); and she conceived, and bare (yada) Cain (Qayin, kah'-yin), and said, I have gotten (qana; kaw-naw) a man (Ish) from the LORD. (Gen 4:1) 

First note that Adam watched (yada) his wife, not copulate with her.

Hence Adam was begotten by God, but Ish was begotten by Eve alone, or so she thought. Life itself (khav-vaw; Eve) became the God. [1]

Although Ish seems to have come from Isha, etymologically there is no connection except Eve as the mother of Cain, not fromthe Hebrew letters. Cain (Ish) was from the womb of the woman (Isha), Adam’s wife. Adam knew his wife (Isha) but not in a carnal sense it seems for Cain is of the Wicked One (1 John 3:12).

Written originally in the Greek, “wicked one” is simply poneros — annoyances. In science, annoyances are “quantum decoherence” — how quantum systems lose their fragile, super-positioned quantum behaviors (coherence) and transition to classical, definite states (decoherences).

In other words, Adam’s kind — in God’s system — lost their fragile state of gloriousness (immortality) which was super-positioned into classical, definite states (mortality). Hence, Cain came short of the glory of God and so have all of us common, mortal men (Rom 3:23).

Hence, Adam’s kind is glorious and Ish’s kind mortal and the most common. (Now that you understand that both Adam and Ish are Hebrew, the italics will be dropped).

The first use of Ish for “man” was after sin; albeit it came before sin in one instance:

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.” (Gen 2:23)

The Spirit (El) of the woman was taken out of God through Adam. However, the woman was taken, not only out of God in Adam, but from the same substances. Adam would have been the soul (life) in the dust from which Adam was molded.

The Lord God formed man (Adam) of the dust of the ground (adama) and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life (af); and man became a living (khah-ee’) soul (napes). (Gen 2:7)

 

Adam, therefore, had three states: adam, af, and nehfes. After sin, the woman would have been in a lower state without nehfes — a creature without the breath of God.

In a manner, sin “suffocated” the El in her, and her state of existence lowered. The woman was still a living creature but without an inner existence within her. Her nehfes was most certainly traded for the flesh of a lower state of creature, not Adam’s, but the creeping kind, Remes.

If so, then Cain was half Remes (a creature-like man) and half Isha as the first letter qof in the name Qayin suggests.

The word “ayin” in the name “Qayin” also has significance.  The letter qof points toward the word ayin, from the characteristic of the eye. The ayin after the letter qof would be half observable and half not. That is common man, not totally depraved but depraved.

The root word for Ish (אִישׁ) is Enosh (אֱנוֹשׁ). Note than the yod in Ish (י) is replaced by the nun – vav (נו) in Enosh. Hence, Enosh would have come from Ish, not the other way around.

Yod (sounds as Ya) is the breath of God. That breath is removed and replaced by the nun -vav — the seed of a man as the meaning of those two letters. No longer, with the birth of Enos was man of God, but strictly of the seed of the beast, or the “wicked one” (nehfes). Cain’s line would indeed have been depraved, as the Hebrew letters indicate.

You might be thinking, He’s putting too much emphasis on the letters of the words, but each of those letters have the thoughts of God hidden within them. The Tankh (Bible) was written in Hebrew letters, not words; words come from the order and meanings of the letters.

In summary, we are far from being “sons of God” and after further degeneration after sin, Adam’s kind just disappeared from existence. No longer was Elohim in mankind but Remes — we are the “old creatures” of the New Testament (from 2 Cor 5:17), so humble yourselves and let the Lord lift you up to a higher state (Jas 4:10).

The psalmist wrote, “What is man, that You are mindful of him? and the Son of Man, that You visit Him?” (Psalm 8:4).  An attempt was made today to answer the question; Just what is man that God is mindful of us?

 

 

 

 

 

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[1] Admitted in my last two books I mistook the letter chet for hey since they are much alike but with differfent sounds: “h” verses “ch” sounds.