Here's the second thing about that design... God designed you to be a spirit being.
Genesis 2:7 - "...he breathed into his nostrils, the breath of life."
God formed man out of the ground, and then he breathed a spirit into man. The word breath in the Bible is the word Nouma spirit. The word 'spirit' is the word 'breath'. Remember in the New Testament, Jesus breathed on the disciples and they received the holy ghost. So He made man, and shaped him, and then He imparted a spirit into him.
Now that makes man really, really different. I think sometimes we don't realize that, because we get seduced by the culture around us; but God is called the father of spirits. What he produces and imparts is spirit. God is a spirit; and he put into you, a human spirit. Scientists can't tell you about that, they can't measure that; but the Bible makes it very clear - you are created uniquely; and you are a spirit being. That's who you are - a spirit being, and you have a soul and ability to be able express, feel, think, make choices, and you live in a body. The spirit being lives in a body.
There are other beings that God created. He created angels. They are spirit beings, but they're not human beings; they don't live in a body. He also created demons, fallen angels; they're ugly, and destructive, but they are spirit beings. They're not human beings; they don't have a body of their own.
He made animals; and animals do not have a spirit. Animals are animals. They have a soul, but they do not have a spirit.
So on the face of the earth, in the physical creation, there is a unique species of created beings called mankind, which are a spirit being, carrying something of the image of God within them. So every person, even if the they've fallen because of sin, every person is valuable, because they carry something of God in them. God gave them a spirit; and on death the spirit returns to God. We are a spirit being. God has designed that we would be spirit beings.
The first man was different to everything. Spirit beings belong in the spirit world - we're human beings. We're like an alien invader - there's nothing like us in the world, because we actually can live in two realms. As a spirit being, you're able to live and connect into the realm of the spirit, and to access the life and resource of God. As a human being, you can live in the world, and taste, and touch, and enjoy all the things God's created. You are created a spirit being.
Thirdly, you are created to be a Son. God designed man, not just to be a spirit being; God designed man to be a son. The primary purpose of a Son in the Bible is to represent his father. God's design is for you to represent Him.
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When you hear these Bible words, watch that you don't attach a human meaning to them; but see what it meant when they wrote it. When we read the word Son, we read gender in it immediately, because we read it through a carnal mind. But you know, the Bible also tells us that not only is God creating sons, he's also creating a bride for Christ. That means if you're a woman, a bride is awesome; but if you're a man and you're a bride, that's a little weird; but it's not a gendered term. It's a prophetic picture term, to describe a function.
When he talks about sons, he's talking about representatives who rule over the family business. When he's talking about a bride, he's talking about someone who is very beautiful, and attractive, that he has a love relationship with. When he talks about temple, he's talking about a dwelling, and that he comes and fills all of it with his presence, until everyone can feel it. There are many, many different ways that God expresses himself, so when we talk sonship, we're not talking gender; we are talking male and female.