Our Scripture Of The Week Is:

Romans 12:2 KJVS
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Paul is urging Christians to respond to God's mercy, His forgiveness of our sin, and His inclusion of us in His family. The appropriate reaction would be offering to Him our entire lives as a form of living, breathing sacrifice.

Next, Paul writes that we must no longer be conformed to the world. The word "world" is often used in the New Testament to refer to the "world system," or the way that every human being lives by default.

John described this worldly way of living as "the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life" (1 John 2:16).

By instinct, all of us chase those things in pursuit of happiness and meaning. Paul tells us to abandon the chase for pleasure, possessions, and status—to stop living like everyone else.

Instead, he urges us to be transformed from the inside out. Specifically, he writes that we must be changed in how we think, to have our minds renewed so that we can begin to understand God's will for our lives.

God may continue to provide us with pleasure, possessions, and status in various forms, but he urges us to learn how to look at life with a new question:

What does God want for me?

What is truly a good, acceptable, and perfect use of my life for His purposes and not just for my own?

We will now get deep into today’s discussion:

By now we have seen that God separated plant life and animal life from mankind, and He said, “Let us make man in our image.”

The Bible clearly distinguishes between man and beast—something evolution does not do. According To Evolution as Carsten Bresch describes it:

“Evolution is defined as the development of all things in all spheres of our world—including the descent of man from apelike ancestors.”

The so-called proofs for evolution based on homologies emphasize the idea of descent from common ancestors. Man is supposed to have descended directly from the animal kingdom by means of the same processes involving the same evolutionary factors which caused animals to evolve.

For this reason, the differences between man and beast are not regarded as fundamental, but as a difference in degree only. Man has only developed to a higher level.

Let's talk about Scientific Objections:

Even on the purely biological plane there is a wide, unbridgeable chasm between man and beast, as illustrated by the following four considerations:

The human brain possesses qualities that have no parallel in the animal world. One consequence is man’s explicit mental capabilities.

Man possesses the faculty of speech, and his creative communication by means of his vocal system is completely different from those of animals.

He has the unique ability to pay attention to various matters at will; he has an inconceivably wide range of interests and observation, because it is possible to consider spatially [spay·shuh·lee] and temporally [ tem·pr·uh·lee ] remote objects; he is able to make abstractions and to use his system of signs for meta-lingual purposes.

Only man is fully bipedal; he can walk upright because of the special structure of the spine. Thus, our hands are not required for locomotion and are available for other purposes. Only man is able to express emotions (such as joy, sadness, hope, laughter, shyness).

Some animals seem to have similar abilities, but they cannot be compared with human emotions.

Now,

Back to The Holy Bible: The Holy Bible, without question, clearly distinguishes between man and beast:

On the sixth day, Adam was created “in the image of God” and quite apart from the land animals through a clearly distinguished separate act of creation.

Man was made last of all the creatures: this was both an honor and a favor to him. Yet man was made the same day that the beasts were; his body was made of the same earth with theirs; and while he is in the body, he inhabits the same earth with them.

God forbid that by indulging the body, and the desires of it, we should make ourselves like the beasts that perish!

The Hebrew word bara (create) is used three times in Genesis 1:27 to emphasize this act of creation. Only man received the breath of God. In this way, he was given a spirit (Eccles. 12:7; 1 Thess. 5:23) so that he transcends the world of the animals.

Only when Adam was created, did God “use his hands”: “The Lord God formed [Hebrew yatsar] the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life” (Gen. 2:7). In the Old Testament, the Hebrew word yatsar is used to describe the actions of a potter who skillfully and imaginatively forms his vessels. In the same way, God used earthly matter for Adam’s physical parts.

Only man can actually communicate with God. Only he possesses the gift of speech and of prayer by means of which he can express all his thoughts before his Creator. Man was created to be near and close to God. He is dependent on communion with God.

Only man has a free will and possesses the faculty of creative thought. According to Psalm 8:5, man was made “a little lower than the heavenly beings.” Human beings possess gifts such as freely developing personalities, inventiveness, and the capacity for cultural development (such as writing, music, historical awareness, so on and so forth).

Even the difference in flesh is mentioned in the Bible: “All flesh is not the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another” (1 Cor. 15:39). This finding has consequences for molecular biology: Proteins comprise the major part of the body. The human body contains approximately fifty thousand different kinds of proteins, each fulfilling its own specific functions. They have different amino acid sequences.

All organisms have certain amino acids in the same positions in the polypeptide [ paa·lee·pep·tide ] chain, and they serve to establish and preserve the characteristic functions of the specific protein.
In contrast to this precise positioning, there are other positions where the amino acids clearly differ from one kind to the other.

It is said only about man that he was not only created “by God,” but also “for Him” (Col. 1:16).
This high purpose is only ascribed to man. Animals are also creatures of God, but they did not receive the calling to become children of God (John 1:12).

In contrast to the animals, man is an eternal being; this means that his existence never ends, even after the death of the body (Luke 16:19–31). An imperishable body will be raised from the perishable one (1 Cor. 15:42). Man was to be a creature different from all that had been hitherto made.

Flesh and spirit, heaven and earth, must be put together in him. God said, "Let us make man."
Man, when he was made, was to glorify the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Into that great name we are baptized, for to that great name we owe our being. It is the soul of man that especially bears God's image.

Man was made upright. His understanding saw Divine things clearly and truly; there were no errors or mistakes in his knowledge; his will consented at once, and in all things, to the will of God.

His affections were all regular, and he had no bad appetites or passions. His thoughts were easily brought and fixed to the best subjects. Thus Holy, thus happy, were our first parents in having the image of God upon them.

May the Lord renew it upon our souls by his grace!