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hillsbororiver:
There have been many but one of the most profound things I have learned on Bible Truths is that Adam was not created perfect and that we are presently experiencing the act of creation in our present life. Much like the clay in the Potter's Hand we are being formed as He pleases.

This seems so basic and obvious now but for years I struggled with the concept that God could create something He considered perfect yet it turned out to be far from it, of course the conventional wisdom of the churches is that Satan and our first parents "fell" from perfection and quite frankly in my mind I would think, "well, if God was wrong on this, what else can He be wrong about?" Is He merely trying to give us immortality but for whatever reason that doesn't work out as planned either? How about all tears wiped away? Might He have forgotten something or get thrown a curve He was not able to overcome?

Now that it has been revealed that He will NOT fail nor did He have to revert to "Plan B" that everything is going exactly as He wills it I have more faith in God and the awesome power and love which is Him.

In Genesis the KJV reads;

Gen 2:3  And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

We know that His work of creation is not completed as Jesus testifies that He came to finish the work His Father had planned from the beginning;

Joh 4:34  Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

Rom 9:28  For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.

This portion of the Lake of Fire Part 12 is incredibly insightful in regard to this topic;


NOT YET IN THE IMAGE OF GOD

Most of Christendom have been taught and believe that God created (past tense) man in the very "image of God." Oh really?

So if we want to see what the "image of God" really looks like, all we have to do is look at the vast sea of evil, sinning humanity? Or maybe you believe like many that Adam and Eve WERE (past tense) in the absolute, very IMAGE of God when they were created, but then lost that "image" when they sinned?

Few indeed realize that being made into the image of God is much the same as being saved—IT IS AN ONGOING PROCESS!

Check all the verses in the original: "now saving," "to save," "shall save," "might save," "are being saved," etc. "For by grave ARE ye saved through faith…" tells us HOW we are being saved, not WHEN (Eph. 2:8). Verses such as I Cor. 1:18 in the King James, "…but unto us which ARE saved it is the power of God," is not a faithful rendering of the Greek. Check an interlinear. The words are thus: "…to-THE YET ones-beING-SAVED US…" Yes, often the original manuscripts have only endings and not the complete word, as in "ING." It clearly shows an uncompleted action.

Creating man in God’s image:

King James Version: "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness… So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; make and female created He them" (Gen. 1:26a & 27).

Concordant Version: "And saying is the Alueim [Hebrew: elohiym, gods or used of the supreme God--plural of elowahh, a deity or the Deity], Make will We humanity in Our image, and according to Our likeness… And creating is the Alueim humanity in His image. In the Image of the Alueim He creates it. Male and female He creates them" (Gen. 1:26a & 27).

So we see here the same thing we have already discussed with regards to the Greek aorist tense of verbs, as in "For God so lovED the world" versus "For thus God lovES the world." God’s love for the world CONTINUES! And creating man in God’s image also CONTINUES!

Lustful, carnal-minded, sinning, Adam and Eve were no more in the complete image of God at their physical creation than the Apostles were completely converted during the schooling under Christ’s teaching. It is all an ongoing process. We are even still being converted, and still being perfected, and still becoming more and more like God. How often I have heard preachers remark how Adam and Eve where in the very IMAGE OF GOD. THE TRUE IMAGE OF GOD DOES NOT SIN!

"For whom He did foreknow He also did predestinate TO BE conformed to the image of His Son…" (Rom. 8:29).

"And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we SHALL also bear the image of the heavenly" (I Cor. 15:49).

Presently, only Jesus Christ is the true "Image of God" (II Cor. 4:4).

Read it all here; http://bible-truths.com/lake12.html

His Peace and Wisdom to you,

Joe

eggi:
Wow! JOE!

Thank you so much for this amazing post!
I had never noticed that Joh 4:34 speaks of just this subject, and it says so plainly that Jesus is indeed finishing His Father's work!

Great!!

Boy, what a comfort it is to know that all of this is running on plan A, and that it is a work in progress. All tears will be wiped away, and all the troubles we went through will be nothing compared to what we will be given.

I remember a minister saying that the first thing he would do in Heaven was to slap Adam in the face. What a "heaven"...

I guess we can also add:

For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act. (Isa 28:21 KJV)

God bless you, and thank you again for bringing this to my attention!
Eirik

Deborah-Leigh:
An excellent reminder that Jesus has not finished His work.

I consider that His work will only be complete and END once He renders everything back to God the Father which is to happen only after Christ has resurrected His own at His coming and then.....

1 Cor 15:25 After that comes the end, the completion, when He delivers over the kingdom to God the Father after rendering inoperative and abolishing every other rule and every authority and power.

Babyon falsely teaches that the work of Jesus ended at His Cross and from now on it is up to us to choose. What a fairy tale heresy of deception. It is an error to assume that the work of Christ was completed at His Cross. He continues to work in us to perfect us into His Image and He continues to intercede for us at the right hand of His Glorious Father.

Peace be to you

Arcturus :)

Gregor:
Greetings,
Rom.4:17 says that God calls those things which are not, as though they were. In light of this, Gen.2:4,5 NKJV, " This (referring to Gen. chapter 1) is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created (planned), in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens(Gen.1:1), before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground;" Gen.3:23, "therefore the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken." It is evident that the "fall" of man was included in God's purpose from the beginning. This same concept also applies when Jesus cried "It is Finished." John 6:29 "Jesus answered and said to them, 'This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.'" It is evident that there are still many who will come to believe. The harvest is ripe. I believe we're still in the 6th day of creation, the number of man, and that the 7th day, God's day of rest is yet to come. 2Pet.3:8 "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."
G.

Beloved:
((Job 40:8 KJVR) 
Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?

World Christianity likes to see Adam as perfect and imagine that there is a basic nobelness in man.  It is hard to sincerly accept the truth  the fact that there is nothing intrinicially Good in mankind because of their blindness so they continue to balsphem God with their teachings.

On the otherhand, it is awsome to think about the transformation that will be needed to get myself to that state. I am incapable of even getting close to that state.

I was really happy when God revealed that there was no Plan B.

(Eph 3:17 KJVR)  That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
(Eph 3:18 KJVR)  May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
(Eph 3:19 KJVR)  And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.
(Eph 3:20 KJVR)  Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
(Eph 3:21 KJVR)  Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

Beloved




 

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