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Human Person may simply

become a specimen for
biological and pathological
scientists to investigate and to
research.

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He may simply become an

specimen for biological and
pathological scientists to
investigate and research.

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I am your
ancestor!

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The Catechism of Filipino

Catholics points essential
descriptions of a Human Person.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Open and Relational (687)

Conscious Beings (688)
Embodied Spirits (689)
Historical Realities (690)
Unique yet equal (691)

Biblical Tradition offers a rich source of

material about the human person.
Biblical anthropology paints a complex
picture of the human person.

BIBLE

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SECOND CREATION
STORY
GENESIS 2:4-25
More Anthropological
than the First Creation
Story (Cosmological)
The narration is
essentially all about
the creation of man.

A. Man as both End

and Part of Creation
It is mans world, the
world of his life (the
sown, the garden, the
animals, the woman),
which God in what
follows establishes
around man; and this
forms the primary
theme of the entire
narrative adamadama
(man earth). - Von Rad

B. The Breath of Life

(Gen 2:27)
It does not mean that a
living soul is inserted
into the human body; it
means rather that man is
created into or as a living
soul, that is into a living
being.
(BASIC BIBLICAL
UNDERSTANDING OF
MAN - Man created as a
complete unity composite of Body and

C. Man and His Work

Problem (2:5)
Man has a task in
relation to creation. God
placed man in the harder
for a purpose. (2:15)
Man is so privileged not
only as to have been
entrusted with the care
of creation but also as to
have been called to be a
co-creator himself.

Man is not an isolated

creature. He is
surrounded by creatures
that God made. (2:20)
Creation of Woman
(2:23) - a helper like
him
Woman was taken from a
intimate part of Adam
himself; and so, unlike
animals, she has the very
same nature as Adam. Lon Dufour

God gives man a command

and man can only relate
himself to this in freedom.
He can abide by what has
been commanded or he
can reject it. in both cases
he sets himself in either a
positive or negative
relationship to him who
commands. The freedom
of this relationship arises
only from the command;
without the command
there would be no
freedom.