Who is a Genesis Man?

Genesis. It's the name of the first book of the #1 best seller of all time: the Bible.

Genesis. Do you notice the word "gene" in there? And from that word, we build words like "generate", "generator", "generation", "genetic", "regeneration", and of course "genesis".

If you care to know, the dictionary defines "gene" as "the basic physical unit of heredity; a linear sequence of nucleotides along a segment of DNA that provides the coded instructions for synthesis of RNA, which, when translated into protein, leads to the expression of hereditary character." Wow! What a mouthful!

In plain speech, that mumble jumble says that a gene is the code of life that we received from our parents before we were born. Our genes are our unbroken link to our ancestors.

Genes are to life what the alphabet is to language. In the English language, paragraphs come from sentences. Sentences come from words. And words come from letters. That says the letter is the origin or source of a paragraph, of a sentence, and of language.

And guess what "genesis" means: origin, beginning.

The "Genesis Man" is therefore the original man. The Genesis Man is the man who so cares to discover or rediscover himself that he will go back to the beginning to find what he lost and where he lost it, to find himself as he was made and meant to be. The Genesis Man realizes something is missing; he instinctively knows that society has stolen something valuable from him. The Genesis Man longs for the Creator's blueprint and design for his life as a male.

Oh, let's define that simple word "man". It comes from the Hebrew word "adamah", and it means "clay" or "dust".

This brings us to two important truths about the Genesis Man. On one hand, he is as special as the Creator's original (gene). On the other hand, he is as fragile as clay and as limited as dust. Thus, the Genesis Man can only reach his full potential to the extent that he is connected to the Divine, to his Designer, to his Creator and Maker.

Briefly put, the Genesis Man is a man of the God of Genesis. He is a man who refuses to stop at nothing less than a man-God connection, for in that link is found his manhood, his greatness. The Genesis Man is a man on a journey, on an expedition to find true manhood in all of its glory and splendor, as it was in the beginning, back in Genesis.