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1 | Is God still creating man in His image? | Gen 5:3 | Bill Mc | 16241 | ||
Dear Lionstrong, thanks for the reply. Thanks for taking the time to explain your viewpoint fully. I appreciate it. I do agree with many of the things you've said in these two parts. I'll reread it over the next couple of days to try to understand it better (I'm a slow learner). Please don't think, brother, that I think that unregenerated man is worthless, just an animal, or any other derogatory term that sinners are labeled. I disagree with that view. "While we were YET sinners, Christ died for us, the Godly for the ungodly." Your view (or Westminster's view) bears much consideration. The only thing that I might add, as a supplement, not a substitute, is that man's worth is really based upon the fact that God chooses to love us. Regardless of whether we agree what that 'image of God' is, we can rest assured that our value is based upon the worth that God assigns to us. How great a love the Father has bestowed on us that we should be called 'the Children of God.' Blessings in Christ, brother Lionstrong. In Him, Bill Mc |
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2 | Is God still creating man in His image? | Gen 5:3 | Lionstrong | 16336 | ||
The Love of God and the Value of Man Dear Bill, Rom. 8:38,39 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. As great as the all-powerful love of God is, it is not the basis for the worth of man. Rather it is what man is, the image of God. Ps. 8:4,5, "What is man, that Thou dost take thought of him? And the son of man, that Thou dost care for him? Yet Thou hast made him a little lower than God, And dost crown him with glory and majesty!" Man is made A LITTLE lower than God!! If one agrees to the truth that man did not become nothing (of no value) when he became a sinner, then he must agree that his worth is not based on how God feels about him, but rather on his inherent worth as God made him. If God loved a beautiful stallion, would that make it something for which Christ would die? Why? Because it's still a horse. Now, don't get me wrong, God does care for his creation. "His eye is on the sparrow" (Matt. 6: 26) and all creation will benefit when man's redemption is consummated (Rom 8: 19ff). But was it for them that Christ died? Christ came to save sinners (I Tim 1:15) not palominos. In I John 3:1, the great love of God has not changed our worth, it has changed our relationship from being sons of disobedience (Ehp. 2: 2) to that of children of God. Peace, Lionstrong |
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