Who is man?

I visited a former prof today and sat through one of his classes on the book of Hebrews. I have to admit I missed a lot of what was going on because I got hung up on Hebrews 2:5-10. Check it out!


1. God did not put angels in charge of the world. (He made the world subject to man.) The Psalmist is really humbled by this. Check out Psalm 8:3-8!


2. The author of Hebrews states a reality when he says, "But now we do not yet see all things subjected to him." Hebrews 2:8 (Speaking of man as he quotes from Psalm 8.)


3. You have to love the "but" in: "But we do see Him who has been made for a little while lower than the angels, namely, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone. For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to perfect the author of their salvation through sufferings." Hebrews 2:9,10


The human, if not divine, predicament is fallen man's inability to rule God's creation. Enter Jesus, who came into the world to do what we could never do (taste death for everyone), so that we could receive what we could never receive. (salvation and glory)


Psalm 8 is a marvelous promise to mankind about God's plans for him, but it is also, as the author of Hebrews applied it, a forecast of the incarnation of God's Son on our behalf.


By the way, who is man that God is mindful of him?


Just Thinking.