Why are we here? When the Father created Adam and Eve, His plan from the very beginning was for them to have dominion over all things. He created man in His image:
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“So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him, male and female He created them” (Gen. 1:27)
God blessed them and told them in Genesis 1:28:
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“Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.”
The Holy Father made everything for man. There was no curse on man or upon creation. Man could live without sweating it out, without working his bones to death. His every need was abundantly provided:
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“Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so” (Gen. 1:29,30)
Furthermore, Adam was the image of God unseen. Man was given God's delegated authority. He was crowned with glory and honor. The Father made him king over all of His creation and the whole earth was man’s kingdom. Until the first king fell into the pit of disobedience --- which thwarted God’s original plan for man.
God scooped dust from the earth, and formed man,
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“And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul” (Gen. 2:7).
The life inside Adam was the soul that came from God. Before the soul came in, Adam had a body. But it was not yet complete. God wanted to put His spirit within that body.
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