The various features, special features and true features of the human face
The human face is a profound and difficult "book". No one can fully understand this Facebook except you and God...
Mark Zuckerberg, the leader of Facebook, which has emerged in the online world in recent years, is a computer technology nerd who started programming website programs in the sixth grade of elementary school.
When he was studying at Harvard University, he was just like any other young man, wearing a shirt and sneakers. A few years ago, he was an unknown Harvard dropout. But after the creation of "Facebook", the miracle of the Internet (Internet) suddenly occurred. He is currently the youngest billionaire in the world. His fortune-making process is very similar to that of Microsoft's Bill Gates. People call him the "Second Gates".
When Zuckerberg was studying at Harvard, he wanted to create an online version of student photos and other classmates' records, but was rejected by the school. He acted as a "hacker" and invaded the school's computers to obtain photos and information in the database. The searches for these photos immediately exceeded tens of thousands of times. The school was extremely dissatisfied with his behavior and imposed a "detention on probation" punishment. However, the number of registered users of his Facebook website exceeded one million in ten months. Zuckerberg followed the example of his senior Gates and dropped out of Harvard to concentrate on running community websites.
This new website quickly became popular within a few years, sweeping the world and even triggering the "Jasmine Revolution" in the Middle East. The ancient and closed Islamic countries in the Middle East have used the information spread by Facebook's open platform to lead to democratic revolutions and overthrow totalitarian governments. After the resignation of Egyptian President Mubarak, a democratic revolution began in Libya. The civil war in Liberia has worsened since the EU and the United States intervened, and the future is irreversible.
The original intention of "Facebook" was to help college students understand each other's faces, but people's faces have developed astonishing and unimaginable consequences, which was unexpected.
▲The most popular face in the world: a 28-year-old Han male.
global public face
"National Geographic Magazine" has a video that introduces the world's most "popular" standard faces to tie in with the topic of human race with a global population of 7 billion. The conclusion of the study is that the most popular face in the world is the 28-year-old Han male, with a total of 9 million people.
It took National Geographic Magazine ten years to collect and fuse 200,000 photos of men and use computer simulation to piece it together (see attached picture). The content of the film describes that among the 7 billion people in the world, the most typical person is right-handed (working with the right hand), with an annual income of less than 12,000 US dollars, and has a mobile phone but no bank account (those with bank accounts are less than 100 US dollars). Twenty-fifths), are male (there are more males than females in the world), and the largest ethnic group is the Chinese Han. But within the next two decades, it is likely that Indians will take over the top spot in terms of population.
▲Michelangelo’s masterpiece: God created Adam.
The first human face created by God
"National Geographic Magazine" used analysis, statistics, induction, and simulation to piece together 200,000 photos of faces. Is this man's face the face of the first Adam created by God? Can this face truly represent human nature? Let us look at the portrait of "God Creates Adam" painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican in Rome by Michelangelo (1475-1564), the famous Renaissance man, for comparison. How similar?
When Michelangelo drew this picture, he did not have photos of 200,000 portraits for his reference, so he drew it only from his imagination (or there may be a model, it is unknown). The first half of Genesis 1:26 of the Bible describes how God created man:"God said, Let us create man in our image, after our likeness." ThisThe so-called “image” here should refer to the attributes and holiness of God, because God is a spirit and is basically invisible (see John 4:24).
But when God wants to appear specifically to people, he sometimes appears in human form. "National Geographic Magazine" adopts "Anthropomorphism" to compare the image of God. However, this is a false assumption made by humans themselves. When God truly became flesh, he “took the form of a slave (man) and became like a human being (this is the specific image of God shown to man, but God took on the form of a human being). As for the real person of Christ Jesus The image has not been left in history.
Today, the portraits of Jesus that people are familiar with are all virtual portraits based on imagination (the Lord’s holiness, love, wisdom and other characteristics). I once saw a popular face in Jerusalem that was said to be the face of local people in the time of Jesus. I was surprised because it looked very vulgar, unattractive, and belonged to the lower class. I am afraid that no one would agree that it was the image of Christ. , but that is the image of a true slave (see Philippians 2:7).
Universal features of human faces
God’s original face of the first Adam and the face of the second Adam (Christ) have not been recorded. The computer graphics are all based on virtuality and imagination, so today they are simulated from 200,000 faces in National Geographic Magazine It is impossible to verify how much the faces of the first Adam and the second Adam resemble each other.
But what is certain is that another universal aspect of human beings, that is, this "public face" copied and screened out by 200,000 people, does share a common aspect, which is exactly the universal appearance of a sinner! This "original sin" acquired by the first Adam when he committed a sin in the Garden of Eden and was expelled is a common feature shared by everyone today.
However, the incarnation of Jesus Christ, the second Adam, did not inherit this original sin DNA, because the Lord’s mission was to use human flesh to be crucified on the cross to replace the sins of the world (if you have original sin, you cannot be the substitute) Lamb), so the second Adam's "human likeness" was completely different from the first Adam's likeness.
The two laws that Paul talks about in Romans (one is the law of God in the heart that is willing to do good, and the other is the law of the flesh that is willing to do evil) are common to all people, because what Paul feels is that everyone experience of.
After man sins, although he loses most of the image of God, he still retains some residual law of God in his heart, which always reminds him that he should obey God, but because his flesh has been sold to sin (see Romans 7:14), In the end, he was still unable to obey God's law. This constant struggle and contradiction in the human body is the universal phenomenon of human beings, which is the appearance of all living beings simulated by National Geographic Magazine (refer to Romans Chapter 7).
special features of human face
The human face is a very wonderful creation. Although we do not know what Adam looked like at the beginning, and due to the long history of transmission and the differences in climate and region on the earth, the original appearance has long been lost. Based on the fact that we are passed down by blood from father to son, it stands to reason that our appearance should be somewhat similar to that of Adam, but it is not necessarily exactly the same. Even if identical twins are so similar that they are almost indistinguishable, there will still be differences after careful observation.
From the first Adam to the present, people have filled the earth, and now the world covers seven billion people. But what is surprising is that no face is exactly the same as another face (including the inheritance of blood relatives), and there are differences: This is a great miracle and mystery. This also shows that God has given people uniqueness, each with its own soul, personality and characteristics; people’s rebirth and salvation also have different stories and ingenuity, and there is no so-called “average appearance”.
There is a "face-changing" game in magic, where you can change into another face in an instant. There are several types of "face makeup" in Chinese Peking Opera, which represent specific appearances. The loyalty and treachery of people are summarized into several typical models, which are painted into different "face makeup" and presented to the audience on the stage. The audience can tell the difference at first sight, understand the character represented by the characters in the play, and immediately identify with the character models created by the play, achieving the educational effect expected by the playwright.
But can people’s inner expressions such as loyalty and betrayal really be written on Facebook? Of course not. Because people's personalities are changeable and complex, sometimes the expressions on their faces are completely contrary to their inner thoughts, which is the so-called "no expression". What’s interesting is that a person’s face does not change with his or her heart. There is a special image among all the appearances, and the special appearance is just like the different faces of people. As the saying goes, “people’s hearts are different, and each one has its own face.”
From this point of view, the human face is indeed a profound and difficult "book". No one can fully understand this book except the person and God. Behind the seemingly identical facial features, there are many secrets hidden. Turn over the book."
There are various kinds of "Physiognomy" in the world. Through in-depth analysis, statistics, induction and speculation of human faces by thoughtful people, and through thousands of years of accumulated experience, we can get a glimpse of the secrets of human faces that ordinary people cannot see. It turns out that people's behaviors are written on their faces unconsciously, but these codes cannot be read by ordinary people, and only those with special research can get a glimpse of them.
But the real hidden mystery is known to no one except God. It will not be until everyone comes to the White Judgment Seat in the future that this Facebook will be fully opened, and the special features of the human face will be turned to the last page, clearly revealed and invisible. There are two kinds of DNA in human beings, which Paul has carefully analyzed in Romans.
Man's original sin has an absolute dominance in the body, which means that“All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (see Romans 3:23), this is the common feature of human beings. In addition to the same "original sin", people each have their own different "original sins", which are the unique characteristics of people. This kind of inner evil has its own characteristics. Although the external behavior of "killing" is the same, there are many different motives and intentions hidden in the dark side of the human heart; this is the unique appearance among all.
Therefore, when arriving in front of the white throne of the future judgment, everyone will have to reveal their special characteristics, and after the special characteristics (original sin) are added to the general characteristics (original sin), they will become sinners. true nature.
All the people in heaven
The second Adam - Christ represented the nature of sinners and was crucified for the world. After his death, Christ was resurrected as a spirit body (see 1 Corinthians 15:44), and then returned to the spirit he had before he became flesh. After the righteous man is resurrected from death, the true identity inherited from the first Adam also disappears. Like Christ, the first fruits, he becomes a spiritual body and becomes another kind of existence: neither the appearance of this world nor the loss of it. individual characteristics.
At that time, everyone will be like angels,"Now that he is resurrected, he is the Son of God" (see Luke 20:36)It has become another kind of appearance of people in heaven. John revealed a secret for us, he said:"Dear brothers, we are God's children now, and what we will be does not yet appear; but we know that when the Lord appears, we will be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is." (1 John 3:2)As for whether people have their own special characteristics in the kingdom of heaven, the Bible has not revealed it, so we cannot understand it. We can only wait for God to reveal it in the future.
Author profile
Pastor Yin Ying is a writer who loves literature, nature and praising the Creator. He is also an editor, publisher and communication worker. He once served as corporate editor and president of church news weekly, producer and administrative director of radio and television programs, and pastored the church for more than 20 years. He is the author of many works such as "Return to the Pastoral", "The Bitter Cup and Feast of the Soul", "The Temptation of Stones", "The Footprints of Jesus", "Meditations under the Cross", etc.