. Think about it: The evolutionist would say that humans “descended” from other primates. The Bible says that all animals were created on the sixth day…God proclaims it “good” (kind of like closing the book or rebooting the computer) but then He chooses to do something more: creation with His Image, an exception for mankind. […]
. We often hear that “They will know we are Christians by our love, by our love, yes, they’ll know we are Christians by our love.” While Christians are one in the Spirit and one in the Lord, Jesus says that they’ll know we are Christians by …wait for it… our unity. Not a superficial […]
It’s perhaps easy to see how walking with God before the fall of man was simpler. For Adam there were fewer temptations…just the one big one. But Adam heard God’s voice with his own ears so perhaps that insulated him for who knows how much time post-creation? Scripture is silent. It may not have been […]
For Adam, bearing God’s Image perfectly before the fall meant that he could walk with God and talk with Him with no obstacles whatsoever to having relationship and communion. Genesis 2:4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the LORD God made the earth and the heavens. […]
Mysterious as the Image of God is (and hard to define!) yet there are characteristics we can glean from observing Jesus and how He talked about His relationship of reflecting God’s perfect Image. What is reflection, but a return or display of something without absorbing it? We do not absorb the Image of God and […]
How many of us, when betrayed, would cut off the betrayer and never again have a relationship? God’s answer was to continue relationship. I’d argue that reality (i.e. relationship) is part of the Image of God and why I believe humanity alone bears this Image. Speaking of humanity in Hebrews 2:7 “’You made them a […]
. . This year’s Lent Devotional Series “Created to Display His Image” resumes tomorrow after today’s Sabbath rest to meditate and worship. Today, reflect on Jesus’ words that He is personal and knowable.
. Adam and Eve, perfect in their initial Creation, decided that reflecting God’s Image wasn’t good enough. They wanted to be exactly like God, independent, and be gods themselves. God had to have been heartbroken. Genesis 3:22 “And the LORD God said, ‘The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. […]
. One of the most beautiful things about the Image of God is the fullness of expression. Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the […]
. Adam and Eve bear God’s Image equally. Jesus may have been male while He clothed Himself with humanity, but it doesn’t mean God is male or that Eve was just an add-on…or like Prince Harry, “Spare.” Or like her existence was only to take over if Adam dies and God needed someone to keep […]
