Mortal man spends his days endlessly searching, seeking to find those things he believes he lacks. Health, love, peace of mind, and companionship are but a few of the things he believes are exterior to himself—far-off and ofttimes unreachable bits of heaven that he feels he can't hope to experience here and now.
In his attempts to find satisfaction, he consciously or unconsciously turns pointlessly to chasing a will-o'-the-wisp with its illusive pleasures, which lead him off in all directions but the right one. He feels that happiness can be found in surrounding himself with friends and material possessions, and yet somehow these do not seem to bring that lasting sense of well-being and contentment which he craves.
We find the first suggestion of man's supposed incompleteness in the second and subsequent chapters of the book of Genesis in the Bible. Adam, the man of dust, was alone and incomplete, needing someone or something besides himself. Here is recorded the attempted reversal of the true account of the creation of man, which is found in the first chapter of Genesis and the first five verses of the second chapter. This account states that man was created "male and female" (Gen. 1:27) in the image and likeness of God, Spirit. Therefore man must of necessity be complete and spiritual.
