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God is creating (present) man in His image?
Kevin:
That is right LM. If man was created at first as a done fact, in Gods image, that would make God a sinner. We know thats not so. WE are a process in making.
Roms8:29-For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of the son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethern.
1Cor15:49-And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we SHALL also bear the image of the heavenly.
ertsky:
one day blessing, comfort, revelation, and great joy
the next day trials, tribulation, chastening, scourging, testing
LOL! oh it's a process alright, as so many have wonderfully pointed out here !
Phi 1:29 For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;
well our light affliction LOL! light affliction, it's all in the point of view
2Co 4:17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
2Co 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
i love that verse Kevin quoted
--- Quote ---1Cor15:49-And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we SHALL also bear the image of the heavenly.
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very comforting verse in trials
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Deedle:
Jesus Christ is the True Image of God!
When reading the OT remember:
Heb 10:1
For the law [OT] having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
2Co 3:6
Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. 7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away: 8 How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? 9 For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. 10 For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth. 11 For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious. 12 Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech: 13 And not as Moses, which put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: 14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ. 15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. 16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
Rom 1:20
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Jer 18:4
And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it. 5 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
1Co 15:46
Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. 47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.
Col 1:15
Who [Jesus Christ] is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
Rom 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
It's always been a process! Let us follow our Lord's example.
Heb 2:10
For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings
And we like Paul can say:
Col 1:24
Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body's sake, which is the church:
Gal 2:20
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Deedle :D
rvhill:
--- Quote from: nightmare sasuke ---I had the same thought. If the word means "creating" and not "created" (past tense) then is the world and heavens still being "created"?
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It would make perfect sense from a scientific point of view, and it would mean that we are still on the 6th day, or the day of man. The next age would be the age that God rest in? So we have yet to reach the 7th day.
Lightseeker:
[KJV] GEN 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:...
There is a cry from the seed/spirit that is in every man. And the spirit/seed that's in every man, came from "the Father of spirits" and "God of the spirits of all flesh". Every human is born with an inherent desire to manifest the likeness of Him.
Every human is in His image and pursuing "after His likeness". Unfortunately the unsaved world is still seeking via the tree of knowledge, and the nominal church has distorted the truth about Him and therefore his likeness also. For that reason, it has raised a bunch of children who are the product of that distored likeness.
Adam and Eve weren't 'like' God and that's why the devil tempted them in that very area...of likeness.
[RSV] GEN 3:5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
The cry of their spirit was to be "like" God but they partook of the soulish deception of acheiving that goal. But God wants us to know good and evil from the perspective of the tree of life...and not "the tree of knowledge/experience of good and evil". Adam and Eve's 'soulish deception' is what sentenced them to being dying souls instead of the 'living souls' they were, when they walked in obedience.
It appears that man was/is created and formed in the "image of God" but that we must grow "after" His character to manifest His likeness. If I say you're the spitting image of your father I mean you look like him. And if I say you're just like your father I mean you act like him. By image, I think we are a triune being of spirit, soul, body. He is a triune being of Father, Son, Spirit. He is "like" the fruit of the Spirit and so also must we become like Him...in that same character.
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