Genesis

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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 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.

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Subject: Adam's or God's likeness?

Bible Note: Brother Doc,

Hah! You should know by now that I stay confused. By the way, glad to be back. Business had me traveling for a while. I sure missed you folks.

Anyway…

I don’t disagree that my references are as if comparing apples and oranges. Though they are two completely different subjects in their entirety, they are derived from the same source aren’t they?

My implication was that that God created man in His own image. In that image, man was given freewill; God permitted disobedience, which in essence was the catalyst in the fall. Man freely chose to disobey.

We still have that “characteristic” today which was originally placed into man by God. We still have other godly “characteristics” that are indicative of our Creator and being formed in His image. Therefore, my thoughts are that even today, in our sinfulness, in our morally corrupt nature, we still have the ability to choose to honor God and obey, which we had from the beginning, and to what I think the Word is referencing, in part, when it tells us we were made in God’s image, that we have certain abilities bestowed upon us that are derived from God and only God.

My thinking, and I’m not real sure now, is that our parents were made in God’s image. The fall shouldn’t negate that fact since it was “post-creation”, for lack of better terminology. Since we multiply and reproduce in kind, don’t we all reflect that same image? I don’t necessarily think of it as whether or not Adam had the “ability” to pass this image to his children. It was God that started the process and continues it from generation to generation.

You did point to the repetition of “in his likeness” as being contrasting. But I didn’t necessarily get from it that the contrast was in the context that we no longer remain in the likeness of God. Unless I take that statement in conjunction with “Adam could not pass on the image of God, who are all conceived in sin.” Adam was not able but does God perform this work?

Where my apples and oranges comparison is applicable: just as we have no control over imputed sin, we have no control over God’s image remaining part of what constitutes us as being human, which by the way, I think is what, in part, keeps us separate from every other everything of God’s creation.

I agree with your statement: “The imago Dei existed in man before the fall. After the fall, it was marred and distorted.”

It may be marred and distorted, but it is still there. Is it not? I guess the point I was trying to convey to searcher56 should have been just that.

WOS

PS: I think I just confused myself!

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