Who are we? We all pretend to know; but how true is our knowledge? “Know thyself” said the ancient Greek sages; but how can we know ourselves? How does one go about it?
Since this book has the Bible as its only source and basis, we will endeavor to collect information about man from there. As with every other subject, we will search for relevant pieces of truth scattered throughout the scriptures. Indeed, the way the “word of the Lord” has been given to us is “precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little;” (Isa. 28:13a)
This, of course, is not because, for some reason, God did not want to reveal all his truths to us at once, but because men, even the great prophets, grasped it little by little, and passed it down to us line upon line. Let us, then, see what the Bible says about man.
I: Man’s spiritual nature
Man is divine and the most important “art” that he must learn in this life is the art of...
