17.1 The Facts of Life

What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? For You have made him a little lower than [Elohim – God], and You have crowned him with glory and honor. You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; you have put all things under his feet (Psalm 8:4-6). It would be in line with Scripture to say “For you have made him like God, little to God’s big.”

One could say that, just as electrical events are scalable such that the orbit of an electron in an atom is identical to the orbit of a planet around a star, so humans are a “tiny” reflection of God, as they are connected to Him and as they are out from Him. Scale God down and place Him in creation and you have a man, Jesus.

Just Like Jesus. This chapter is titled “Human Living” and it corresponds to the first level of learning in the cognitive domain – knowing the facts. In this lesson, we will simply lay out the basic facts of all human experience in daily living, but we want to think of everything in terms of the human coming out from God as an expression of who and what He is inside of creation. Jesus lived daily in exactly the way we do; we are just like Him.

In the next lesson, we want to place all of the simple and ordinary things of human living into the “Sustaining and Energeoing” that is Christ Jesus causing us to be every moment. Finally, we will consider “Human Action,” that is, the choices and actions of humans that become either what is called economics or what is called politics.

Together as One Body. Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man. – Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated? But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man (Matthew 15:11 & 17-18).

I am including this verse to show that, in Jesus’ understanding, the human physic and the human spirit, together as one body, operate in identical ways, though inside different realms. Eating and going to the bathroom are normal parts of being human, but vomiting shows a problem. Hearing all sorts of things and forgetting much of them is normal, but speaking from the heart the evil things one has heard shows a problem.

Breathing Lungs and Beating Heart. Everything we do physically, we also do spiritually, equally as much, though most retain an ignorance towards their spirits.

My two primary actions, both automatic, are the breathing of my lungs to obtain oxygen from the air and the beating of my heart, pumping blood to all the cells of my physic. In the exact same way, I breathe into my spirit from the Holy Spirit of God automatically and constantly, and the Blood of Jesus flowing out from His heart inside of me, constantly carries His life to every part of me and carries away all that offends. This is literal inside my heavenly parts, automatic, and constant.

All of these functions are taking place in my one body, in the heavens and in the earth at the same time, and all are a reflection of God’s own being, that is, His likeness.

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made. Nothing of the facts of our existence, of the mundane humdrum of our daily lives is or can be “not-God.” Our earthly parts are coming out from God, generated by Him every moment, just as much as our heavenly parts. More than that, as David said, we are fearfully and wonderfully made.

True science, that which is called natural or wholistic health, produces an ever-unfolding discovery of just how complex and just how woven together all the many aspects of our physics really are and even recognizes and includes the presence of spirit as part of our bodies. We approach every aspect of our physical lives, then, with the thought that “this is like God,” and “this teaches me of God.”

Eating and Drinking. The next thing we do daily goes back to Jesus’ observations quoted  above. – I eat and I drink; I crap and I piss. Think about that line. The first part is the abundance of life, eating and drinking of Christ. But the second part? How blunt and tasteless are my words. You see, it is right that crapping and pissing be private and not be part of general conversation, yet you do both as much as I, and we do it daily. I crap because I eat; I piss because I drink. As Jesus said, “It all goes out the other end.”

Here is my point. Both equally are God’s design of us; both equally reveal God to us.

Out the Other End. Why is such understanding critical to us? The primary reason people refuse the baptism of the Holy Spirit is that they fear getting a demon. The primary reason people shy away from what I teach is that they fear being deceived. Yet Jesus said, “If you have not eaten the flesh of the Son of man and have not drunk His blood, you do not have life inside yourselves” (John 6).

Every food you eat contains poisons that, by themselves, would make you sick or kill you. Yet you eat without concern, knowing that what ain’t right goes out the other end. It is the same with eating of Christ. We eat and drink His Word without concern, KNOWING that whatever isn’t of God passes on through. This is just basic to the facts of life.

Scalability. The electrical theory of the universe shows that a picture of a fetus at the moment of conception and a picture of the rim of the cone as a Birkeland current pinches down to become a star look exactly the same, you cannot tell them apart. The first is microscopic the second is telescopic, yet both are made in the same way. This is what is meant by “scalability.” Then, the iris of the eye has the same electrical characteristics and appearance. 

Think of that, the entrance of life into the earth, the entrance of power that forms a star, and the entrance of light into the mind, all three share the same visible and electrical characteristics. As David said, “We are fearfully and wonderfully made.”

The Entire Human Body. Every argument explaining how humans are “like God” pinpoints a small number of ways such a thing could be true. “We are like God in A and B.” Such arguments always, then, exclude everything else by omission. “But we are NOT like God in C, D, E, F…” Dr. Paul Brand, in his books, Fearfully and Wonderfully Made and In His Image, shows how many other aspects of the human body are expressions of the likeness of God, including those appearances we would, as Paul said, deem unfit to be seen.

My point is this, a study of the human body in its entirety, physic and spirit together, is a study of what God meant when He said, “Let us make man in our likeness.” Nothing is left out; nothing is “not of God.”

The Father Works. We could then divide what humans do into three large categories. We work, we play or relax, and we sleep. Here is one line that got Jesus into big trouble. “The Father works until now and I also work.” That is, “Father and I are always working (synergeoing) together.” It is clear from Scripture that God also rests after working.

Does God have fun? Does God do things that are for no other reason than the enjoyment of pleasure, adventure, or beauty? As David said, “In Your presence is fullness of joy. At your right hand are pleasures evermore.” What God likes to do just for pleasure and enjoyment is going to surprise us to no end.

Human Emptiness. If we believe that God is telling us the truth when He said that He made us in His likeness, we could then assume that the things humans like to do, inside of purity and truth, are the many, many things an infinite God also likes to do. But what about the things humans “like” to do that are clearly contrary to God?

The source of all sinful actions is an emptiness inside the human in the place designed to be filled with the knowledge of God. There cannot be a vacuum, and so the person fills that empty space with inventions accompanied by whispering demons. Every aspect of every human is of God and coming out from Jesus, but the human takes that good thing God made and turns it in the direction that best satisfies their empty and false soul.

Sinful Action. A sinful action can be defined as an action meant to hurt or to steal from another for self-gain. This is actually the definition of the law – do not steal what belongs to another, including what belongs to God.

The point is this, that there is no evil creator or creation, but all things come out from God through the good-speaking of Jesus. Therefore, what is false is nothing other than taking what is first of God and using it to fill an unnecessary void. You see, if a human were evil by nature, then there can be no judgment, for they are doing only what they are made to do. Taking what is coming out from Jesus directly and in this present moment and using it for false and wicked purposes is a far greater sin.

Out from His Own Desire. Finally, there is sexual desire. We have established from one end of Scripture to the other, that sex is part of God. The first words God spoke to humans together were, “Have lots of sex (be fruitful and multiply). Out from His own desire, He gave birth to us by the Word of truth (James 1:18). God brings forth His life in us by every aspect of sexual reproduction and desire.

But while God meant sex to be pleasurable, it is also for bringing forth children. Some of the greatest crimes that have been committed in human history are those crimes committed against children born out of wedlock, and especially those born of adultery.

How We Are Most Like God. Marriage is greatly valuable in all, and the marriage bed undefiled; but the sexually immoral and adulterers God will judge (Hebrews 13:4). The judgment will be facing the children whose lives have been destroyed. Yet inside the commitment of marriage, sexual love comes entirely out from God and is an expression of Him.

In fact, we could argue that of all the ways in which humans are made like God, bringing forth new life is the single greatest part of our humanity formed in the likeness of a God who brings forth all created things by His Word, by the planting of His Seed. Being a father, being a mother, is how we are most like God.

The Expression of God. The purpose of this short lesson is to bring into our view every part of normal and daily human living as made in the likeness of God. Being made like God is not incidental or peripheral or partial. It is what we are in totality.

And when Christ Jesus fills our hearts as the knowledge of sharing life with God our Father, then the “need” to fill an empty hole vanishes, and we walk in purity and truth, with every part of our humanity an expression of what God is like.

We never think that God is “like humans,” however; rather, humans are like God. The distinction is important, for God is not our expression; rather, we are His.