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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: Adam's or God's likeness? |
Bible Note: If sin can be passed from generation to generation, or rather our sinful nature, then why couldn’t the “image of God” be passed from generation to generation? If our sinful nature can be traced and accredit to Adam and Eve, why don’t we trace our likeness to God or being made in His image the same. God made male and female in His image knowing good and well they would fall, but yet it still pleasured Him to do so. Simply because Adam and Eve fell doesn’t actually change the fact that they were still made in God’s image. The fact that we were created in the image of God, as a reflection, seems evident today and still yet to come. Couldn’t the references to God’s likeness and Adam’s likeness in Gen. 5 simply indicate that Adam was created sinless (by God) but the generations to follow would not be in a sinless state due to the fall? If we are not made in God’s image, then who’s? Man’s? If the latter, do you really believe we are still able to give glory to God or would even want to for that matter. C. S. Lewis wrote that God was the source from which all of our reasoning power comes. I agree with him, and if that is true, we have to be able to reflect some of God’s characteristics, which would seem to indicate, we are in His likeness, yes even today. WOS |