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1 | So what is God's vs. Adam's image? | Gen 5:3 | Lionstrong | 16338 | ||
What Man lost in the Fall Dear Bill, I think what you've hit upon is pyrite not gold. The issue of what man is and what he lost at the Fall is crucial to how one understands salvation in Christ. I think the Roman Catholics hold a similar view to what you just espoused which logically has resulted in an evisceration of the Gospel of Christ. But from you other comments, I think you haven't gone that far. Gen. 2:7 Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. The point of the author I quoted is that this is how man came to be the image of God. The author identifies knowledge with the image of God. Clark writes, "...Scripture defines the image as knowledge..." He further says, "...this knowledge comes by the act of breathing into Adam the spirit of life..." So the author is not talking about "the Divine life of God." By the breath of God, man was created as the image of God. The death fallen man experiences is the separation from God caused by sin and its curse, not the loss of the life God gave him. The life that man has is still spiritual, but it is no longer toward God. As the image of God, man did not cease to be a spiritual being. Man's spiritual death is not a loss of life, but a loss of a relationship. Life and death are indeed central themes of the Bible. "For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all shall be made alive." 1 Cor. 15:22 But the Divine life is not what was lost in the Fall. What was lost in Adam what is what is restored in Christ, that is, knowledge, righteousness and holiness of the truth. (Col 3:10,11; Ehp 4:24) We have eternal life in Christ because in Him is "renewed" what was lost in the fall, knowledge. "And this is eternal life, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent." John 17:3 Peace, Lionstrong |
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2 | What is the breath of life? | Gen 5:3 | Bill Mc | 16614 | ||
Hi Lionstrong, Thanks for your reply. You stated: "The death fallen man experiences is the separation from God caused by sin and its curse, not the loss of the life God gave him." Then why did Jesus say that He came to bring us LIFE? Why does the NT make it clear that we are born DEAD in trespasses and sins? Why do these verses all say that we were made ALIVE in Christ? - See Rom 6:11; Rom 8:10; 1 Cor 15:22; Eph 2:5; Col 2:13 Lionstrong, you seem to imply that the death that God said would happen to Adam and Eve the day that they are from the forbidden tree was merely physical death. Yet they did not die immediately. Adam lived some 900 years after the fall. But God says, "The day you eat, you WILL die." If I understand your definition, the spirit of life (merely physical life, breath) is also possessed by the animal kingdom. But we know that they are not made in the image of God. "The life that man has is still spiritual, but it is no longer toward God." - Agreed. "By the breath of God, man was created as the image of God." True, but what is this breath of God. God is primarily spirit and as such, He had no human breath until Christ was born. A spirit, in the physilogical sense, does not breathe. So, if this 'breath of life' that God imparted to Adam is merely physical life, isn't that same thing evident in the animal world? In Christ, Bill Mc |
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3 | What is the breath of life? | Gen 5:3 | Searcher56 | 16619 | ||
Bill Mc, -Christ brought spiritual life, since we already had phyiscal life. -"He had no human breath until Christ was born" is not true. Genesis 18 is one of several OT passges where the Lord appeared. -Read the first three chapters of the Bible to see that when Elohim created man, it was in a different fashion. Steve |
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