Ahhh!!! Man?

Ahhh!!! Man?

By: Malloy Cabahug

When I was just a little kid, I always wonder what I was made of aside from my skin and bones and everything that I could see on the mirror or touch with my bare hands. Was there such a thing inside of me? That was the very question that lingered on my mind then.

My innocent mind was so filled with colorful imaginations regarding my body and my soul. As I recall, I would even imagine my soul separating from my body and spy for evil plans of gangsters in the town. This was of course triggered by watching movies and hearing a lot of ghost stories.

Elementary days in school introduced a new concept to my innocent mind regarding the origin of man. Though enrolled in a Christian School (my school was ran by catholic nuns), our science subject introduced to our young and innocent minds Darwin’s theory of evolution. This theory postulates that human being is a product of evolution from apes. It was taught to us as if it was a fact.

Until now, I believe that this Darwin’s theory of evolution is still taught in the schools worldwide. I just hope and pray that Christian schools are no longer introducing this topic to the innocent school kids. Rather, they should thoroughly inscribe in their minds who man is as presented in the Bible.

Even before becoming a born again Christian, I had already dismissed Darwin’s theory of evolution. No ifs or buts on my part, I just considered this theory as impossible. I just could not imagine myself having come from apes, do you? It was really my belief that man is a created being by a sovereign personality who is God.

There were so many instances in the past were I am confronted with questions on the origin of man to what composed the human being in some of the drinking sessions with friends. While writing this piece, I remembered one of my drinking buddies whom we fondly call “Butch”. He is usually the initiator of this type of a topic to debate on as the group passed around drinking glass filled liquor. As the drinking session progresses, we just realized that we are getting drunk faster with the debate than the liquor we drank.

Looking back, I now realize that learning the nature and origin of man relying only on human intelligence is a futile exercise. You will only get drunk, as me and my friends were, discussing round and round so many information and views from so many sources. The best source to know the nature and origin of man is the Holy Bible. Read it and with the aid of the Holy Spirit, you will know who and what you are? Where you come from? And where you are destined to?

This is what our church, Word International Ministries – Al Ain, embraced as a theme for the month of July 2008, “The Doctrine of Man.” I hope and pray that starting August 2008, the rest of our church members will have a straight answer when confronted with questions regarding the nature and origin of man. No one should utter this word of hesitation AHHh!!! MAN?

God bless.