"man"

"After the earth with its teeming animal and vegetable life had been called into existence,

man,

the crowning work of the Creator,
and the one for whom the beautiful earth had been fitted up, was brought upon the stage of action.

To him was given dominion over all that his eye could behold; for "God said, Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness: and let them have dominion over . . . all the earth. . . . So God created man in His own image; . . . male and female created He them."
Here is clearly set forth the origin of the human race; and the divine record is so plainly stated that there is no occasion for erroneous conclusions.

God created man in His own image.
Here is no mystery.
--There is no ground for the supposition that man was evolved by slow degrees of development from the lower forms of animal or vegetable life.
Such teaching lowers the great work of the Creator to the level of man's narrow, earthly conceptions.

Men are so intent upon excluding God from the sovereignty of the universe that they degrade man and defraud him of the dignity of his origin."

E.G.W.