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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: Son or son? Holy Spirit or holy spirit? |
Bible Note: Zerotheory: Two of your statements particularly catch my eye. [1] "I think everyone and everything is the eternal Son of God." [2] "I believe in MYSELF" My comments on [1]. If you acknowledge the deity of Jesus Christ, then what you have said about Him amounts to pantheism, a non-Christian view that in one way or another fails to see God as distinct from creation. In pantheism, God is equated to all that exists and all that exists is God. Are you indeed a pantheist? Oh, I pray that you are not.... My comments on [2]. When I asked you, "What DO you believe, your answer was, "I believe in MYSELF." This leads me to infer that you are perhaps a very young and immature person. That's all I have to say about your answer, but the Bible has something to say about it. I submit for your solemn consideration two verses: The first comes from Jeremiah 17:9: "The heart is deceitful about all things, and desperately wicked." The easiest person on earth to deceive is oneself ... The second is from Proverbs 3:5,6: "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths." Whether you are young or old, these are sound words of wisdom. They are true. They are trustworthy. You are precious in God's sight. Trust in Him this very day with all your heart. Such is my prayer for you this evening. Zerotheory, I'm well past the half-century mark in my life. In fact, I've been a Christian for more than 50 years. And I have never had occasion to rue the day when I became a regenerate believer, a child of the King, a Christian. On the contrary, I view it as the turning point in my life, the most important thing that has ever happened to me, or could ever happen, in this life. One parting note: God wrote the Bible. We should be happier and wiser to read it for all it's worth, to accept it as eternal truth, to believe it, to study it, to ask God for illumination of it. But to remember always that God put it together and we should never presume to try to pick it apart. We are doomed to failure if we do. --Hank |