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NASB | Genesis 1:26 ¶ Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 1:26 ¶ Then God said, "Let Us (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) make man in Our image, according to Our likeness [not physical, but a spiritual personality and moral likeness]; and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the cattle, and over the entire earth, and over everything that creeps and crawls on the earth." [Ps 104:30; Heb 1:2; 11:3] |
Subject: image of God |
Bible Note: Hi Searcher, Thanks for this research, bro. There is much false doctrine that abounds and TV seems to be the main medium of choice for it. I just wanted to clarify my previous post that, while I do believe that man is primarily a spirit being with soul and body, he is not created as pure spirit. God is pure Spirit. And despite all the garbage that these so-called men of God proliferate, He does not have a physical body. Christ took on one and still inhabits some form of supernatural, physical body but God, in essence, is Spirit. But man was never created as pure spirit. God created him as spirit,soul, and body and he will always be thus. Nor is he equal to God. He never was and never will be. I do not see God, in the act of creation trying to reproduce Himself. I see Him creating a subordinate creature called human that He can express Himself through, but equality with God is never man's option. The angels are also spirit beings. They seem to be able to take on physical form but it does not appear (no pun intended) that they are physical in nature. Man, on the other hand, has a physical dimension and always will. Anyone who teaches anything different in this respect is obviously a false teacher. My explanation simply refers to the functionality of man in that, through his spirit, he is designed to worship and fellowship with God. He is a unified whole. To deny his physicality is to side with Gnosticism and deny the reality of the created universe. To accentuate man's soul over his physical and spiritual components, elevates humanism to an unwarranted position of false authority and relativistic thinking. And to deny his spiritual nature is to relegate man to the status of an animal with superior intellect, hence evolution. To seek spiritual reality apart from God will lead to demonic posession or opression. Spiritual truth must come from God and His Word. We must have a proper balance of man that comes from the biblical view. One of the most obvious scriptures is 1 Thess 5:23 where Paul states the correct order of functionality - spirit, soul, and body. To deny any of these components diminishes man to less than what our Creator has intended. To put soul and body above spiritual truth becomes "flesh". The Creator and the created can be one through union in Christ but never are one is essence. We are joined to Him but we are not Him. Hope this helps. McGracer |