Heaven's workshop (Manufacture of man)
Man is the zenith of God's creation. The creation of man was so crucial to God that when he was creating other things, He called them into existence e.g Let there be light, and there was light. He says let the firmament appear and it was so.
That was not the same when it comes to the creation of man, he had to call on a meeting of Trinity; and He says let US make man in OUR own image (not in my own image), to show that they are more than one in that scene. He had to call other things into existence, but when it comes to man there have to be an art of creativity that is not verbal. The creation of man is a subject that should be carefully looked into, because the word "creates" is a large word that means different things such as TO MAKE TO PRODUCE, TO FASHION, TO FORM, TO INVENT, TO PREPARE, but only two out of these hypernyms are used to explain the creation of man, they are MAKE and FORM. Making and Forming are the activities carried out by God when it comes to the creation of man. In other words man was MADE and FORMED by God this is what it means when we say God created man. Man was both created and formed by God.
So, the creation of man can be divided into two phases.
1. The making of man
2. The forming of man
THE MAKING OF MAN
The making phase of God's creativity a in the creation of man is done according to his own IMAGE and LIKENESS.
IMAGE- This means man was fashioned to reflect the appearance of God. It is no mistake that we have two eyes(not one) and one mouth(not two), this also explains the reason why we have two ear ( not one).
LIKENESS- This makes man carry some attributes of God like creativity, productivity, wisdom,e.t.c...
THE FORMING OF MAN
"Man was formed from his environment". The Forming of man is done by using the already existed objects to form a new one called Man. Objects like sand, trees, rocks, water, wind have being before man came into existence and they are the ones used in the formation of man.
1. The body of man is made from the dust that is why it becomes a soil when man is buried.
2. The bone of man is made in the similitude of rocks that is why it doesn't decay.
3. The hair of man was made in the similitude of rocks that is why it grows back when we have our haircut or lower it and so on.....
All these makes us understand that man was formed from his environment(i.e the things around him). So your environment should not hurt you because you are compatible.