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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: So...what is your theory? |
Bible Note: Dear zerotheory, Greetings in Jesus' name! ALL philosophy is theological. "See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ." Colossians 2:8 NASB The Greek word above 'philosophia' means friend or lover of wisdom. It is equated here with deception, and I can personally testify to that! The 'wisdom' of the world is empty and vain, and foolishness before God. "Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you thinks that he is wise in this age, he must become foolish, so that he may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness before God. For it is written, 'He is THE ONE WHO CATCHES THE WISE IN THEIR CRAFTINESS'; and again, 'THE LORD KNOWS THE REASONINGS of the wise, THAT THEY ARE USELESS.'" 1 Corinthians 3:20 NASB Whether you try to name a philosophical god 'Boundless' (with a capital 'B') or 'Zero' or 'Supreme Being' or 'Initial Cause' or 'Infiniteness' or whatever, you blaspheme God of the Bible. This is specifically because He is not 'nothing' and beyond everything! When we try to use our minute thinking abilities to 'ascertain' God, the only appropriate language is that of the Bible. Which brings us to... "...let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead--by this name this man stands here before you in good health. He is the STONE WHICH WAS REJECTED by you, THE BUILDERS, but WHICH BECAME THE CHIEF CORNER stone. And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved." Acts 4:10-12 NASB My friend, may the Lord Jesus lead you by His Spirit to know Him, and worship Him, and Him alone. In Christ Jesus, charis |