The Incredible Human Potential PDF - Church of God Faithful Flock

68 THE INCREDIBLE HUMAN POTENTIALThis necessitated that God's very own LIFE - Divine Goolife-be imparted. God /S a Spirit- composed of Spirit.And yet this is made possible only after God's own holy. righteousand perfect CHARACTER has been wrought in each human -by that human's repentance and faith - during this earthly mortallife.What a marvelous plan God conceived. He would form manof physical MATTER- so that, ifman totally failed, he could be asthough he had never been, could be destroyed. So God made manof PHYSICAL substance, formed and shaped like God so that mancould be converted- changed from matter into Spirit compositionata resurrection- a Spirit-composed member ofthe Goo F AMIL Y.Can your mind grasp what matchless wisdom, power of designingand planning, made our transcendent human potentialpossible?God first formed PLANT life - the flora. This was living matterreproducing itself, but without self-consciousness - withoutbrain. Next God created the fauna - animal life, in which Heplaced BRAIN, with a certain consciousness, yet without the thinking,reasoning, decision-making processes. But MAN, to be reproducedinto the Goo F AMILY, was designed to have a GODLY typeMIND, ability to think, reason, make choices and decisions - developGod-like CHARACTER.How could all this be done? Actually the brain of an elephant,a whale or a dolphin is virtually equal in complexity, desigoand quality and larger in size than human brain. Thechimpanzee's is also virtually equal, but slightly smaller in size.WHY, then, is the human MIND so transcendently superior to animalbrain?