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NASB | Genesis 5:3 ¶ When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 5:3 ¶ When Adam had lived a hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth. |
Subject: So what is God's vs. Adam's image? |
Bible Note: 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 |