Christian Theology - Media Sabda Org

Both his body and soul are adapted with astonishing wisdom to their
residence and occupations; and also the place of their residence, as well
as the surrounding objects, in their diversity, colour, and mutual relations,
to the mind and body of this lord of the creation. The contrivance,
arrangement, action, and reaction of the different parts of the body show
the admirable skill of the wondrous Creator; while the various powers
and faculties of the mind, acting on and by the different organs of this
body, proclaim the soul's divine origin, and demonstrate that he who was
made in the image and likeness of God was a transcript of his own
excellence, destined to know, love, and dwell with his Maker throughout
eternity.
That God made man conditionally immortal cannot, I think, be
reasonably doubted. Though formed out of the dust of the earth, his
Maker breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and he became a living
soul; and as there was then nothing violent, nothing out of its place, no
agent too weak or too slow on the one hand, or too powerful or too active
on the other; so all the operations of nature were only performed in time,
in quantity, and in power, according to the exigencies of the ends to be
accomplished. So that in number, weight, and measure, every thing
existed and acted according to the unerring wisdom and skill of the
omnipotent Creator. There could, therefore, be no corruption or decay; no
disorderly induration, nor preternatural solution or solubility of any
portions of matter; no disorders in the earth; nothing noxious or unhealthy
in the atmosphere. The vast mass was all perfect: the parts of which it
was composed equally so. As he created, so he upheld all things by the
word of his power: and as he created all things, so by him did all things
consist; and among these MAN. Every solid had its due consistency; every
fluid its proper channel; some for support and strength, others for activity
and energy; and the various fluids to conduct to every part the necessary
supplies, and to furnish those spirits by whose natural and regular agency
life, under God, is sustained.
It would be absurd to suppose that God formed any intelligent beings
without a law or rule of life, when we know that he formed them to show