The worth of the human being

"What shall a man give in exchange for his soul?" (Matt. 16:26).

"What is the cost of a human body, in terms of the different elements that make it up?

Anatomy & Physiology  Organization of the Human Body

1 Answer

WARNING! Long answer! The elements in the human body are worth about $600 US.

Explanation:

99% of the mass of the human body are worth about $600 US.

Explanation:

99% of the mass of the human body consists of six elements: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus.

They are worth about $576. All the other elements taken together are worth only about $9 more.

For the calculations, I have assumed a mass of 80 kg (176 lbs), and the prices are the best estimates I could find.

Here are my calculations for the 16 most valuable elements. All the others add only another $0.13 to the total."

https://socratic.org/questions/what-is-the-cost-of-a-human-body-in-terms-of-the-different-elements-that-make-it

Then Mr. Ernest breaks all the math down by each individual chemical. That was 2016, so add a few dollars for inflation. $600 total for human worth in 2020?

Now, there are other values for our worth depending on whether you are a civil servant working on a safety or economic project, or a hospital administrator and an insurance adjuster working on health care. For them individual worth is in the millions or billions of dollars. That's more accurate for human worth. Right?

But, what worth did God tag in each individual? Now we go where no man has gone before.

What is God's perspective on life? The Lifegiver's love for every single child (7.8 billion of us) that He has brought forth (women are middle men in creating babies), whose sense of bedside manner is unsurpassable, whose quantity and quality of care for His children, concern for them, desire for their safekeeping "until the redemption of the purchased possession" (Eph. 1:14), and all of the above is infinely unaffected by sinful selfishness. What yearning for our communion, a pure communion, makes His loss for Adam and the human race all the more unbearable!

Let's guestimate that the total human population since Adam comes to 10 billion minimum. Based on that, then Christ's propitiation must cover at least 10 billion souls. For the sake of suretyship, like insurance, let's double the population. We don't want to overlook anyone, and more so the Godhead's wouldn't to.

Propitiation and suretyship are old biblical terminology. I'll fact check for you.

Suretyship:

Suretyship is a very specialized line of insurance that is created whenever one party guarantees performance of an obligation by another party. There are three parties to the agreement:

·         The principal is the party that undertakes the obligation.

·         The surety guarantees the obligation will be performed.

·         The obligee is the party who receives the benefit of the bond.

 Propitiation:

"1) The action of propitiating or appeasing a god, spirit, or person.

'he lifted his hands in propitiation'

2) atonement, especially that of Jesus Christ."

https://www.google.com/search?q=propitiation+meaning&oq=propitia&aqs=chrome.1.0l3j69i57.4872j1j7&client=ms-android-cricket-us-revc&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

I prefer the following definition because it is not connected with the devil's perversion of the biblical self-sacrificing love of God.

"Propitiation [N] [B]

that by which God is rendered propitious, i.e., by which it becomes consistent with his character and government to pardon and bless the sinner. The propitiation does not procure his love or make him loving; it only renders it consistent for him to execise his love towards sinners.

In Romans 3:25 and Hebrews 9:5 (A.V., 'mercy-seat') the Greek wordhilasterion is used. It is the word employed by the LXX. translators inExodus 25:17 and elsewhere as the equivalent for the Hebrew kapporeth , which means 'covering,' and is used of 

the lid of the ark of the covenant ( Exodus 25:21 ; 30:6 ). This Greek word (hilasterion) came to denote not only the mercy-seat or lid of the ark, but also propitation or reconciliation by blood. On the great day of atonement the high priest carried the blood of the sacrifice he offered for all the people within the veil and sprinkled with it the 'mercy-seat,' and so made propitiation.

In 1 John 2:2 ; 4:10 , Christ is called the 'propitiation for our sins.' Here a different Greek word is used (hilasmos). Christ is 'the propitiation,' because by his becoming our substitute and assuming our obligations he expiated our guilt, covered it, by the vicarious punishment which he endured. (Compare Hebrews 2:17 , where the expression 'make reconciliation' of the A.V. is more correctly in the RSV 'make propitiation.')

https://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionaries/eastons-bible-dictionary/propitiation.html

We see the Bible's own definition in the context of Paul's deep, magnificent, collosal (and clausal), "dynamic answer to man’s lostness—that in justification God imputes divine righteousness to all who have faith in Jesus Christ."

"...all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; to declare, I say, at this time His righteousness: that He might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus." (Rom. 3:23-26).

In my mind propitiation centers around the upholding of the Law of God and His universe kingdom. Earth, a strategic but invisible dot in the cosmos, accepted the Satan's attempt to usurp Jehovah's throne by siding with the deceiver at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Adam's world was strategic because it was created after the controversy among the angelic hosts and in the Godhead's very presence. Therefore, Adam and Eve had the high privilege of vindicating God without a knowledge or bias concerning the issues of heaven. And they were exonerating the Father beautifully, and naturally. They were living proof that Lucifer's argument was false, that God's Law set a standard too high. Adam and Eve were everything God required of the Law--through love for their Maker. He was a Father to them, and they were His most precious children. We see David's affection in them, or vice versa. There was not another creation like them in the kingdom.

Lucifer knew God, that His Law was the foundation of the everything that He made--objects, laws, personal relationships throughout His vast kingdom. Therefore, the alteration, i.e. the destruction of God's Law was Lucifer's strategy. 

Having gained possession of the inhabitants of Earth, he used them for a human shield. While they had little idea their "friend" was just using them in a cosmic battle, he dominated overothem. Earth was his first occupation, and he planned for many more worlds. 

Lucifer put God in a hard position. He could care less about the humans. He wanted to destroy God. Somehow tempt God to overstep perfect justice in His fight against the inveterate adversary, and to overstep perfect mercy in the saving His darling humanity who were infected with the spirit of Lucifer and inescapably in close proximity to him. They loved their Creator, but they had a taste of sinful self-indulgence, self-exaltation, self-pity, self-sufficiency, self-justification, self-centeredness, basic selfishness, and they immediately got addicted to it all. Now sin and self were largely eclipsing all the love and purity of heart that had so much overwhelmed them in the Garden. 

It would take all that God could bring to the work of propitiation, but the precious children of Earth could be saved because they hadn't revolted to the extent that Lucifer and his angels had. They stopped running from Jesus in the Garden, and were horrified and their pride was decimated when they had to kill their beloved lambs at their Lord's command. 

"For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of Him who hath subjected the same in hope." (Rom. 8:20).

But nothing less than death could remove their rebellion due to Satan's spirit. Still they could be only partially reclaimed until "the redemption of our body" (Rom. 8:23) at the very end. "Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ." ( Titus 2:13).

Propitiation. In faith Adam and Eve looked to the Messiah who would live beautifully like God wanted all His children to imitate, and then die in their place, shocking them all in horror and out of rebellion. In the love and sorrow of each sinful soul who acknowledged that they should have been destroyed instead the spotless Son of God the Law of God was satisfied.

Upon repentance, new strength returned to each new humbled and grieving saint, giving God a stronger position in the angelic court to bring humanity home again, and giving Him a stronger position in the hearts of His precious children of Adam. Each repentance also gave Him a stronger position against the adversary. 

What are we worth to God? M

Billions of dollars?

More precious to Him than humanity was His only Begotten. But, to make it eternally known that He was worthy to reign, and that His Law was able to be kept through His Spirit, and that He had trained up His Son in the way of self sacrificing love, so that when He would be grown He would not depart from His Father's training, God risked everything by sending His Son, not in His almighty divine form, but as a son of Adam in a body that was weakened by 4,000 years of Satan's destructive rulership.

As for us, because of our great need, we somehow, as a race, ranked equally with the royal Prince of heaven who exchanged His high and glorious position with our horrible, dangerous position. 

"For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." (Rom. 8:3,4).

 "When we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." (Rom. 5:6-8).

Christ's desire was to save us and to uplift us to such holiness that we could sit next to His throne and stand before His Most Holy Father. "To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with Me in My throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with My Father in His throne." (Rev. 3:21).

Suretyship? It's woven into the above explanations, but that will be covered next time. 

Godspeed. : )

Back in the '70s I once heard that the human body was worth 19 cents.