A Pondering Thought
What does "Made in the image of God" mean?
What IS our likeness that is of God's?
Huh .... 🤔
What IS our likeness that is of God's?
Huh .... 🤔
61-69, F
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AkioTsukino · M
@ShadowWorker
In what sense were we all created?
....and I do not believe we are all created equal neither.
In what sense were we all created?
ShadowWorker · 61-69, F
@Matt85 oh my... sin ..wrong doings have been around since Cain and Abel.
ShadowWorker · 61-69, F
@AkioTsukino i was referring to physical and mental creation... soo..yes..it's all about spiritual being. Hmmn...
SpudMuffin · 61-69, M
@AkioTsukino so god doesn't have a big nose and acne?
AkioTsukino · M
@Matt85
Most of us, yes, but the thing is, God doesn't have any of those things.
But we all have 2 eyes, 2 hears, 2 nostrils.
Most of us, yes, but the thing is, God doesn't have any of those things.
Matt85 · 36-40, M
@AkioTsukino Hit me with the scripture
please
please
AkioTsukino · M
@Matt85 Scripture? What good is that with indoctrination and without reason? So, I will give you two scriptures and you tell me what they mean.
Romans 1:20: "For his invisible [qualities] are clearly seen from the world’s creation onward, because they are perceived by the things made, even his eternal power and Godship, so that they are inexcusable."
Psalm 33:6: "By the word of Jehovah the heavens themselves were made, And by the spirit of his mouth all their army."
Romans 1:20: "For his invisible [qualities] are clearly seen from the world’s creation onward, because they are perceived by the things made, even his eternal power and Godship, so that they are inexcusable."
Psalm 33:6: "By the word of Jehovah the heavens themselves were made, And by the spirit of his mouth all their army."
AkioTsukino · M
@SpudMuffin That's correct, Spud. Nor is he a fat ugly old sack of turd that, in his youth, was almost stunningly good looking. He isn't a mirror of our physical likeness.
AkioTsukino · M
@ShadowWorker The Bible refers to Adam being created as perfect. Perfection. Perfection means having great potential. In the eyes of a mother and father a child is born perfect. The number 7 represents completeness. The seven day week was modeled after God's creation. The number of man is 666, it emphasizes imperfection, incompleteness, three times. 6, 60, 600. The seventh day, the sabbath, or the rest, God's rest, is the time when God's purpose for man would have been complete. Until that time God couldn't be a part of our lives without a mediator. He couldn't be a part of imperfection, then sin. BUT. Upon death we are acquitted of our sin. (Romans 6:7)
Then, and only then, through that mediator and savior, Christ Jesus, can we enter God's day (period, time, not a literal 24 hours) of rest. Only then will his purpose for man be complete. Namely, that we are like him. Capable of deciding what is good and bad. Knowing that our creator alone makes that decision. He is the Sovereign Lord Jehovah. By the time man was created, the angels had already matured to that point. That's why it says they created us in their image. And we are like them deciding (knowing) what is good and what is bad.
Genesis 1:26: And God went on to say: “Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness
Genesis 3:22: And Jehovah God went on to say: “Here the man has become like one of us in knowing good and bad,
Isaiah 40:28: Have you not come to know or have you not heard? Jehovah, the Creator of the extremities of the earth, is a God to time indefinite. He does not tire out or grow weary. There is no searching out of his understanding.
John 5:17: But he answered them: “My Father has kept working until now, and I keep working
Genesis 1:31: After that God saw everything he had made and, look! [it was] very good. And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a sixth day.
Hebrews 3:16-4: For who were they that heard and yet provoked to bitter anger? Did not, in fact, all do so who went out of Egypt under Moses? Moreover, with whom did [God] become disgusted for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness? But to whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest except to those who acted disobediently? So we see that they could not enter in because of lack of faith.
Therefore, since a promise is left of entering into his rest, let us fear that sometime someone of you may seem to have fallen short of it. For we have had the good news declared to us also, even as they also had; but the word which was heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who did hear. For we who have exercised faith do enter into the rest, just as he has said: “So I swore in my anger, ‘They shall not enter into my rest,’” although his works were finished from the founding of the world. For in one place he has said of the seventh day as follows: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works,” and again in this place: “They shall not enter into my rest.”
Since, therefore, it remains for some to enter into it, and those to whom the good news was first declared did not enter in because of disobedience, he again marks off a certain day by saying after so long a time in David’s [psalm] “Today”; just as it has been said above: “Today if you people listen to his own voice, do not harden your hearts.” For if Joshua had led them into a place of rest, [God] would not afterward have spoken of another day. So there remains a sabbath resting for the people of God. For the man that has entered into [God’s] rest has also himself rested from his own works, just as God did from his own.
Then, and only then, through that mediator and savior, Christ Jesus, can we enter God's day (period, time, not a literal 24 hours) of rest. Only then will his purpose for man be complete. Namely, that we are like him. Capable of deciding what is good and bad. Knowing that our creator alone makes that decision. He is the Sovereign Lord Jehovah. By the time man was created, the angels had already matured to that point. That's why it says they created us in their image. And we are like them deciding (knowing) what is good and what is bad.
Genesis 1:26: And God went on to say: “Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness
Genesis 3:22: And Jehovah God went on to say: “Here the man has become like one of us in knowing good and bad,
Isaiah 40:28: Have you not come to know or have you not heard? Jehovah, the Creator of the extremities of the earth, is a God to time indefinite. He does not tire out or grow weary. There is no searching out of his understanding.
John 5:17: But he answered them: “My Father has kept working until now, and I keep working
Genesis 1:31: After that God saw everything he had made and, look! [it was] very good. And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a sixth day.
Hebrews 3:16-4: For who were they that heard and yet provoked to bitter anger? Did not, in fact, all do so who went out of Egypt under Moses? Moreover, with whom did [God] become disgusted for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness? But to whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest except to those who acted disobediently? So we see that they could not enter in because of lack of faith.
Therefore, since a promise is left of entering into his rest, let us fear that sometime someone of you may seem to have fallen short of it. For we have had the good news declared to us also, even as they also had; but the word which was heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who did hear. For we who have exercised faith do enter into the rest, just as he has said: “So I swore in my anger, ‘They shall not enter into my rest,’” although his works were finished from the founding of the world. For in one place he has said of the seventh day as follows: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works,” and again in this place: “They shall not enter into my rest.”
Since, therefore, it remains for some to enter into it, and those to whom the good news was first declared did not enter in because of disobedience, he again marks off a certain day by saying after so long a time in David’s [psalm] “Today”; just as it has been said above: “Today if you people listen to his own voice, do not harden your hearts.” For if Joshua had led them into a place of rest, [God] would not afterward have spoken of another day. So there remains a sabbath resting for the people of God. For the man that has entered into [God’s] rest has also himself rested from his own works, just as God did from his own.