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The Case for Man

I got the idea to write this after seeing a lecture event titled “The Case for God,” (based on an upcoming book of the same title, by the lecturer) and thinking how utterly ridiculous that notion is. God is not an abstract that we should talk about “it.” That is a total logical reversal of reality and a grammatical absurdity of speech. So without further ado, I present here the case for Man—the only case in Man’s favor that could possibly exist, as far as we are concerned:

Our Father in Heaven, You made Us in Your image and have revealed Yourself to Us through Your wonderful creation, through Your words spoken by prophets, through Your commandments and covenants handed down from generation to generation, and finally in the person of Your Son, Jesus Christ.

But We refused to acknowledge You, our maker. We transgressed Your Law and have broken Your Covenant. There is no health in Us. Man has gone astray like a lost and stubborn sheep, refusing to hear the voice of a Shepherd. We have walked in blindness and called it light. We have espoused foolishness and called it wisdom. You gave Us speech, and We used it to deny You.

Even so, You have seen fit in Your mercy to redeem Your humble creation; to reestablish Man not only to Our original estate, but to exalt Us to the Heavens by your Son, who was made Man, who died and rose again from the dead; who is ascended to sit at Your right hand. In Him, You have brought Us out of darkness into Your light, out of sin into righteousness, and out of death into life. With Jesus’ blood you have sealed to Us Your Covenant and have given Us the promise of life everlasting, to as many as have believed in His Name.

Therefore, Father, spare your creature, this Man who has offended You to Your face. Do not consume Us in Your anger.

You have made a New Covenant with Us, so that by faith We may claim Your promises. By Your word to Abraham, to whom You promised a Seed, We claim Our future generations. By Your word to Israel, to whom You promised a redeemer, We claim freedom from bondage. By Your Son, who bought Us with His blood, We claim life. By His promise to be with Us until the end of the age, We claim the power of Your Holy Spirit. By the water and Spirit of rebirth, and by the meal of bread and wine that Your Son gave Us, for which We give thanks and by which We declare His death and resurrection, We claim the benefits of Your Covenant.

Our Lord and Our God, judge of all, look with mercy upon Man, for Your Son has assumed Our nature that in Him We might be raised to Your glory. He bore Your wrath, that We might not.

This we ask, Father, that your Name might not be blasphemed among the nations, but that it might be glorified in all the earth. In the Spirit of Jesus the Christ, in whose Name we ask this, and who also intercedes for Us: AMEN.

The defense of Man rests its case.