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 .... 🤔
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Renaci · 36-40
It can't be literal because we all look different. Plus that would have to include the great apes as well which christians just don't even recognize.
There is also the other interpretation that it refers to the mind of personality. Which makes more sense as in Genesis when we ate of the tree we became like God, knowing and capable of both good and evil. So the serpent told the truth.
There is also the other interpretation that it refers to the mind of personality. Which makes more sense as in Genesis when we ate of the tree we became like God, knowing and capable of both good and evil. So the serpent told the truth.
AkioTsukino · M
@Renaci
By knowing both good and evil do you intend to establish that there was evil prior to Adam's sin? There wasn't so God didn't "know" evil. All that God created he established was "good." Evil, or bad, didn't exist. The knowledge Adam coveted was the preference to decide for himself what was "good" and what was "bad" or "evil."
The footnote to Genesis 2:17 in the 1966 Jerusalem Bible puts it best: “This knowledge is a privilege which God reserves to himself and which man, by sinning, is to lay hands on, 3:5,22. Hence it does not mean omniscience, which fallen man does not possess; nor is it moral discrimination, for unfallen man already had it and God could not refuse it to a rational being. It is the power of deciding for himself what is good and what is evil and of acting accordingly, a claim to complete moral independence by which man refuses to recognise his status as a created being. The first sin was an attack on God’s sovereignty, a sin of pride.”
There is also the other interpretation that it refers to the mind of personality. Which makes more sense as in Genesis when we ate of the tree we became like God, knowing and capable of both good and evil. So the serpent told the truth.
By knowing both good and evil do you intend to establish that there was evil prior to Adam's sin? There wasn't so God didn't "know" evil. All that God created he established was "good." Evil, or bad, didn't exist. The knowledge Adam coveted was the preference to decide for himself what was "good" and what was "bad" or "evil."
The footnote to Genesis 2:17 in the 1966 Jerusalem Bible puts it best: “This knowledge is a privilege which God reserves to himself and which man, by sinning, is to lay hands on, 3:5,22. Hence it does not mean omniscience, which fallen man does not possess; nor is it moral discrimination, for unfallen man already had it and God could not refuse it to a rational being. It is the power of deciding for himself what is good and what is evil and of acting accordingly, a claim to complete moral independence by which man refuses to recognise his status as a created being. The first sin was an attack on God’s sovereignty, a sin of pride.”