Is man essentially a graduate animal? Is he chiefly a spirit, imprisoned in a non-angelic body? Or is he the unique image of God and the ruler over all angels and animals?
Has man always been inadequate, and is he still evolving toward a yet-future humanity? Has he now, because of a catastrophe, become the very image of Satan? Or is even fallen man still the crown of creation and the very offspring of God?
Here, we shall attempt to answer these questions from nature — as seen through the spectacles of the Bible or Holy Scripture.