*Not quite sure quite where to start discussion concerning this so I'll use a post of mine from elsewhere*
Job 7:17 - What is man that You should magnify him, and that You should set Your heart on him,
Psalms 8:4 - what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man, that You visit him?
Psalms 144:3 - O Jehovah, what is man that You know him; the son of man, that you esteem him?
At least in three verses here we find similar questions. Is this a question without an answer? Have you ever wondered what we are that in INFINITE God would care about we minuscule creatures.
We know what God is. HE is love (
1 John 4) and that is why HE cares. But what is man? Whatever we are, there is a definite list out there that describes us perfectly as a race. Whatever that list is, it must perfectly describe the Son also since He is '100% human'.
In
Hebrews 2:10 it says that everything was made for the Son. This includes what we call the human race - you and me included. So why was humanity made for the Son? In
Genesis 2:18 God declares that it is not good for (a) man to be alone. This 'alone' has to refer to being with an equal since Adam already was with God (greater than Adam) and the animals (less than Adam).
Set aside your disbelief for a moment and consider a God that has parts. One of those parts could very well fit that 'definite list' mentioned above. As some of you know, I believe the Son to be a finite part of the INFINITE God (the Father). This is not a relationship between equals. Therefore, before time existed, the Son was 'alone'. This 'was' not good. Because of this, the Father (through the Son) made what we call now call humanity (for the Son). So the Son would have equals to be with.
So the answer to 'what is man?' is that our consciousnesses are made in the likeness of the Son. The Father cares about us because HE cares about HIS Son. We are so alike that HE has offered to adopt us and allow us to rule with HIS Son.
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I've never heard of an answer to this question 'what is man' and this also answers the 'why'... God could've made any type of being to worship HIM, why did HE make ones to the 'human' specification?