Tomas Samuel

The psalmist asks one of the most important questions ever to be raised by a human being in Psalm 8:4: “What is man, that you are mindful of him?” The answer to this question is not simply an exercise in mental curiosity by those seated at the intellectual round table. Our whole being cries out for an answer. And improper identification can be dangerous and even fatal because it can result in an improper prescription. And here we need the science of Anthropology. Ury defines Anthropology by saying: It is the nature of human personhood. The term Anthropology, as its composition indicates, is the science of man – from Anthropos, man and logos, science. It is used in both a scientific and a theological sense.  As a science, anthropology deals with the problems of primitive man, the distinction of races, their geographical distribution, and the factors which enter into man's development and progress. In a theological sense, the term is limited to the study of man in his moral and re...

  Genesis 1, 2: I believe that God was setting the bases for all creation as God of the universe and that no one can create or responsible for the creation but him, and that was clear in setting all the details like Gen 1:21  " S o  God created  the great sea creatures  and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. " And that's mandatory to understand the purpose of the chapter. So, we can see also that man kind is made in God's image, " t hen God said,  “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness  " Gen 1:26, which means also that we are reflecting his presence as our Lord and that's obvious when we look for the tasks that God gave to Adam and Eve, "  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 ...