![]() ![]() ![]() You made them rulers over the works of your hands you put everything under their feet: all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild, the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas” (Psalm 8:3–8). The Creator made human beings to be His representatives on the earth, and He gave them dominion over creation: “When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them? You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor. Mankind did not evolve from other lower forms of life but was created directly by God and in the image of God (Genesis 1:26–31 James 3:9). Other Bible translations use mankind (NIV) and human beings (NLT) in place of man. Here the ESV makes it clear that the term translated “man” speaks of “human begins,” both male and female created beings. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.’ So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him male and female he created them” (Genesis 1:26–27, ESV). Genesis 1-2 describes the formation of the world, including the creation of humanity: “Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. Mankind, humankind, and humanity are collective designations for all humans-creatures who are made in God’s image, a characteristic that distinguishes men and women from the animals and from the Creator God Himself. The term man in the Bible sometimes refers to one male human, but more commonly means “human beings,” both male and female.
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