Creator and Blogger God 2 Image and likeness

History of the development

Creating into His image according to His likeness

Spitting image

Once God spoke everything He said became true. As Creator He was totally in charge, but He wanted to make somebody else who was in His image, reflecting His nature, which naturally would not make that person being the same person as Him. God created human beings; he created them godlike, reflecting God’s nature. He created them male and female. So when the first or the second Adam were created in God’s image they did not become Adam god nor Jesus god. They could be considered to have the same DNA as their Creator but would never be the same person as their Maker, like the sculpted likeness or the image on the photograph could never be or become the person which it depicted, even when it got the spitting image of the Father or the mother. As we still say today about a child that it is the dead spit of her mother or a carbon copy of the father, those children shall never be considered to be the same person as their parents, so likewise for Adam, Eve, Michael, Abraham, David, Jesus, or anybody who had to become like Jesus or to take on the armour of God.

Painting from Manafi al-Hayawan (The Useful Animals), depicting Adam and Eve. From Maragh in Mongolian Iran. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Being in the image of God they also received power of their Creator, like God was giving the program, the right to direct and steer everything. God His Word made the making of fish in the sea, the birds in the air, the cattle, and, yes, earth itself, and every animal that moves on it. God blessed the human creatures and told them to prosper, reproduce and fill the earth. The animals could reproduce but it were man who could take charge and be responsible for fish in the sea and birds in the air, for every living thing that moves on the face of earth. Because it was God who spoke and gave the task to name everything and to take care of every sort of seed-bearing plant on earth and every kind of fruit-bearing tree, which was given them to their food.

“26 and god said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness. and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creepers creeping on the earth. 27 and god created man in his image; in the image of god he created him. he created them male and female. 28 and god blessed them. and god said to them, be fruitful, and multiply and fill the earth, and subdue it. and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the heavens, and all animals that move upon the earth. 29  and god said, behold! I have given you every herb seeding seed which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in which [is the] fruit of a tree seeding seed; to you it shall be for food. 30 and to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the heavens, and to every creeper on the earth which [has] in it a living soul every green plant [is] for food; and it was so.” (Genesis 1:26-30 MKJV)

Master teacher

Being created out of the dust of the earth, in His image, those moving, got the Breath of life in them by Jehovah God the Creator so that they themselves could breath and move around being directed by this Spirit Who taught them counsel. They had no other expert to go to for advice than their Creator. There were no schools to attend to learn justice. God was the first Master Teacher Who taught man what he knows, showed him how things work.

“7 and Jehovah god formed man [of the] dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. 8  and Jehovah god planted a garden eastward in Eden. and there he put the man whom he had formed. 9 and out of the ground Jehovah god caused to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food. the tree of life also was in the middle of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.” (Genesis 2:7-9 MKJV)

“and so it is written, “the first man, Adam, became a living soul,” the last Adam was a life-giving spirit.” (1 Corinthians 15:45 MKJV)

“13 who has directed the spirit of Jehovah, and what man taught him counsel? 14 with whom did he take counsel, and [who] instructed him and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and made known the way of understanding to him?” (Isaiah 40:13-14 MKJV)

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5. The World framed by the Word of God
6. Man made life
7. A viewpoint on creation
8. Created to live in relation with God
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10. We all are changed into the same image from glory to glory
11. Jesus spitting image of his father
12. On the Nature of Christ
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15. Without God no purpose, no goal, no hope
16. Creation gift of God
17. God doesn’t call the qualified
18. We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go.
19. The Wonder of Jehovah
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Illuminated parchment, Spain, circa AD 950-955, depicting the Fall of Man, cause of original sin. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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