When God created man in His own Image (male and female He created them), in the likeness of God, and he blessed them and named them "Man" when they were created, (Genesis 5:1)
God gave Man power to have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.
The Word of the Lord made Man a continuity of Him. He was the Father and Man was the son. And for this reason Man received the power from God and came out from him and became the head of the new world made for him with everything in it, and the woman a complement force to him.
He was ordered not to cover his head, since he was the image and glory of God, and the woman was made the glory of man. For man was not made from woman, Man came from God, but woman came from man. Neither was man created for woman, but woman for man. (1 Corinthians 11:7). Both were joined together in one flesh, and what God joined together Man was not able to separate. (Mark 10:8).
Man's heart was knitted in the love of God and had all the riches of assured understanding and knowledge of God's mysteries. This was the principal reason why the serpent representing the elemental spirits of the universe did not conquer Man with its deceitful ways.
Man was invested with the power of God and those were captured by the power of the evil one. The woman, made from man not from God, was made prey of this evil philosophy of life according to this elemental spirits of the universe, and not according to God.
Man as the head of all rule and authority over those spirits contrary to the will of God, living in the same world that God created for him, had the woman as a means of strength or weakness. Since woman did not come from God instead she came from Man, her powers complementing to him had to be harmonized through the love for God. in order to work together with the divine Spirit invested in Man.
When the woman was conquered by the deceitful power of the evil one, the whole creation in which man had dominion was bonded and its legal demands stood against all humankind. God could not destroy it since Man was invested by the power of God and by the Word of God to have dominion over the whole creation. The only way to cancel this bond was through Christ Jesus who had to came to the world of man and suffered as human by the hands of the humans. God designed a very specific plan and his Divine Power made it possible through the ages of humankind connecting all the works of his true servants sent to the world captured by and governed by the evil one. God nail him and his bond in the spirit of Christ to the cross and made all humankind free again to choose God from the bottom of their hearts.
God's plan was unique and perfect. He disarmed the principalities and powers of these elemental spirits working in Man's world, and made a public example of them, triumphing over them in Christ. These were only a shadow of what is to come; but the spiritual substance belong to Christ.
If with Christ, everyone died to the control of the elemental spirits of the universe, why still people live as if they still belong to that world? Why do they submit to their regulations according to man made doctrines and precepts?
Set your mind on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, for you already are dead to them and alive to the spiritual rewarding of the eternal life.
Put to death the spirits that are trying to use you and ruin you because they only can live in the flesh and is the earthly part of every one of us.
Put to death fornication, impurity, passion for earthly things, evil desire, and idolatry, because in these we once walked.
When elemental spirits try to control us and bound us they want us to live in them. But know we have the power to put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and foul talk from our mouths.
Do not lie to one another, seeing that we have put off the old nature, and every day the new one is renewed in knowledge after the image of our Creator.
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, and patience, forbearing one another and, if one has a complaint against each other, forgive each other as the Lord has forgiven us, so we also must to forgive. (Colossians 4).
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