Humanity: Male and Female

 

Welcome! Today we continue our series on Sound Doctrine, this time is the second of three messages on humanity. Last week, John talked about the nature of man, “Soul and Spirit, Flesh and Bone.” This week we venture into an area that is controversial in the sense that our society has changed dramatically in what it believes to be true and right – the area of humanity as male and female. Now, I am the pastor among the three of us that generally develops sermon series and assigns teaching assignments. Fred has pointed out that in the past that I tend to give him the most controversial or difficult assignments. Fred is, by and large, right about this, although I have some good excuses – Fred is the one among us with significant training and experience as a counselor, and a lot of these difficult topics fall along these lines. This week’s topic is one I would consider controversial, so I would like to ask Fred to come up here and finish today’s message. Just kidding! Fred, this is an early Christmas present to you – stay in your seat! 

Humanity: Soul and Spirit, Flesh and Bone

We enter a new chapter today on this series on doctrine.  We began the series talking about the Bible: how it is unique, and how it is the basis of our understanding about God and the things of God (and really everything).  Then, we spent a couple of weeks talking about God and what He is like.  Most recently, we have been talking about God’s creation including last week’s topic, the spiritual creatures God made: angels.  Both the audio and transcripts for those messages are posted on the church website.  Just go to clemsoncc.org and look for the “Message Archive” on the left side.  Click there, and you can find whichever message you are interested in.  If you have trouble, let us know, and we will help you get what you need.

This week, we are beginning a three-week chapter about another spiritual creature God made.  We are going to talk about us.  … Humanity … Humankind … Man.

I started thinking about humanity and whence man came.  As is usual, when I wax philosophical, my mind usually wanders not to deep and hidden things but rather to the simple, so I naturally ended up at the familiar nursery rhyme.

“What are little boys made of? Slugs [or snips] and snails and puppy-dog tails; that's what little boys are made of.  What are little girls made of?  Sugar and spice and everything nice; that's what little girls are made of.”