ECCLESIASTES 8:17
then I saw all that God has done. No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all their efforts to search it out, no one can discover its meaning. Even if the wise claim they know, they cannot really comprehend it.
11:5 Just as you do not know how the life breath enters the human frame in the mother's womb, So you do not know the work of God, who is working in everything.
Isaiah 55:9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.
11:5 Just as you do not know how the life breath enters the human frame in the mother's womb, Soyou do not know the work of God, who is working in everything.
John 18:36 “My kingdom is not of this world”… “But now My kingdom is not of this realm.” Berean Study Bible
THE CREATION OF MAN
Edgar Daqué, the well-known biologist, whose theories I normally regard with some skepticism, once made a very discerning comment about the origin of man, referring specifically to these pre-human stages of evolution. When all was done-that is, when the animal world had been created-he raised up from the animal the human form, gave it his breath, in the midst of biological development occurs the miracle of Gods choosing and lifting man out of the animal kingdom and calling him to himself. And more precisely, this miracle consists in his breathing his breath into him; in other words, in the fact that something happens to him which no development could bestow upon man and which the first pages of the Bible proclaim to us as being the basic foundation of faith in creation, namely, the miracle of inspiration with the divine breath. For this inspiration means that God gives man a part of himself and makes him the bearer of his Spirit and image. Though the story of Paradise may be geographically and historically part of a cosmology which is no longer ours, its message remains the indispensable gospel of our faith. This affirmation that God breathes his breath into man in order to make him a man is the crux of the gospel of creation; it is history in the highest sense of the word, for it is actually the basis of all human history. For only by virtue of this word concerning the divine inbreathing could Jesus Christ, who bore within him intact the breath of God and is able to make men new by the breath of his Spirit, become our brother. -Helmut Thielicke
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