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The desire to live is in all lives and in one way or the other, all creation are expressing that ingrained drive. This desire was built into life by God at the very beginning of creation and He also set principles to regulate that passion. According to the story of creation found in Genesis chapter 1, God spoke to different sources in other to create some products. For example, God spoke to land to produce all sorts of seed-bearing plants, he spoke to the sky to produce light, he spoke to water to produce fishes, etc. When God was doing all these, He was establishing a relationship between the product and its source. Therefore, Fishes must remain in water, birds must stay in the sky, moon and sun in the firmament and plants must cleave to the soil to continue to live. When this relationship is broken the resultant effect is DEATH. We see this truth everyday in our lives. It is so obvious that you have to have someone to help misunderstand it.
Genesis chapter 1:26 also reveals that God is the source of man. How did God create man? God brought man out of himself by means of breathing out his spirit into the formed-dust body of man. God did not breathe his breath into any other of his creation. This is the one act that separates man from all other creation. Jesus Christ, being God, also further confirmed this same truth after his resurrection in the book John 20:22“Then he breathed on them and said, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit.’ ” The breath of God or life in a man simply means the spirit of God. Man is a spirit being just Like God. In other words, man is a portion of God in a body made of flesh and blood. His is a lower version of God. While God is the superior quality of man. “… You have made him a little lower than God…” Psalm 8:4-8.
Since God brought man out of himself, it also means that man possesses the very essence of God. One of the intrinsic qualities of God is that of a free will and this also he gave to man. However, God also established a parameter within which man’s freewill can be expressed and that parameter is his will, purpose, plans, commands, instructions, all of which equals the word. Any time that man uses his freewill outside the limit of God’s word, just like what happens to other creation when they step out of their sources, he experiences death which is separation from God Gen. 2:17. God created death in other to:
1. Prevent abuse of freewill: Every true freedom has certain limitations without which it is self-destructive. For example, man has the freewill to work, eat, sleep, rest, reproduce, etc.; but if he doesn’t apply restrictions, he’ll become the victim of his own freewill. On the other hand, God in his sovereign wisdom limited his own freewill. This may be shocking but it is true. The book of Palms 138:2 says, “I will worship towards your holy temple… For you have magnified your word above all your name.” God obviously understands the implications of an unrestricted sovereignty that is why he submitted his own freewill to his words.