Scripture: On the sixth day of creation scripture says that God made us in his image. He created mankind in his image so that they could rule over the animals. Scripture declares that God blessed mankind and called them to be fruitful and fill the earth (Gen 1:28). God breathed life in to mankind and therefore created a spiritual being (Gen 2:7). God created Adam and made him dominant over the earth and the steward of the planet (Gen 2:15). Being created in God’s means that we are social beings (Gen 2:18). Being a social being means that we can communicate with God and his creation.
God created us in his Son’s image so that we are able to grow closer to him. So once we become more like God’s image we will then see the good works of God in
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He explains the different beliefs about the “image” and “likeness”. Some claim that image only means body and likeness is the soul. Others claim that image is the natural gifts that people are given; likeness is something that is supernatural from God. Then there are others that claim image is being inborn and likeness is conformity to God. “It is far more likely, however, as we pointed out in the preceding, that both words express the same idea, and that ‘likeness’ is merely an epexegetical addition to designate the image as most like or very similar. The idea expressed by the two words is the very image of God” (pg.206). Berkof then goes on to talk about how it is important for man to be seen in the image of God. Berkof says that it is important because it is what separates us from the rest of the creatures in God’s …show more content…
It helps us see that God created us in His image for a reason. When we know our purpose and understand why God created us in His image we will begin to act differently. But more importantly we will understand and know God better through our relationship with Him. Secondly, it helps us to begin to see the impact our image has on others. If we claim to be Christians then we are also claiming to be in the image and likeness of Christ. I do not blame people that confused about who God is because there are people that claim to be Christians but do not show the correct image of God. Thirdly, we can look at scripture in a different way. Scripture is good to read but often people read it and only like the ideas behind what they are reading. These people might good intention and motives from scripture but they do not do the most important step after they read it which is to live it out. If we really want to know what it looks like to live out the image of Christ the right way all we need to do is read what it says in the Bible. When we apply scripture, the very words of God to our lives, we can be closer to that image of God that we have been created
...an inspire us to overcome in every situation; to pursue our callings relentlessly, knowing that he that hath begun a good work in us will perform it until the day of our Lord Christ Jesus!
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis1:1.) God’s perfect wisdom created everything. In Genesis 1 and 2 we can see that God has loving and gentile nature when He created the earth and heavens. God created man in his image and we are the only creation that God breathed in the breath of life for human beings (Genesis 2:7). God did not do this for any of other creations but only for humans. The Bible has many scriptures that tell us how creative God is. Genesis 1;26 states “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” God created all of this for us to have fellowship with him.
It is our primary purpose and the reason we’re here. “You were created to worship. God wants you to know His redemption so you will desire to worship and praise Him.” Tozer says. It’s just so funny to me how even Christians miss this. We wander around living our lives asking silly questions like “Why was I born?” but the whole time God had such a simple and specific plan laid for us. I love this quote, “I believe that He (God) created man out of no external necessity. I believe it was an internal necessity. God, being the God He was and is, and being infinitely perfect and infinitely beautiful, and infinitely glorious, and infinitely admirable and infinitely loving, out of His own inward necessity has to have some creature that was capable of admiring Him and loving Him and knowing Him.” God’s purpose for us was to recognize His beauty. To admire the gloriousness and vastness of who He is. It’s so simple but we miss it! We ask “Where’s God calling me to go?”, “What has He created me to do?”, “What’s my job gonna be?”, “What’s my ministry gonna be?” and we spend all this time, asking all these questions, but if we just started with the fact that we are first worshippers of an Almighty God I wonder how quickly we would be able to answer all the other questions. It says, “The most godlike thing in the universe is the soul of man.” He created us in his own image to be close to Him. Because that’s all He desires from us. “Man is better qualified to appreciate God than any other creature because he was made in His image and is the only creature who was.” (Tozer) And we see this in Genesis at the creation of man. It says, Genesis 1:26a Then God said, “Let us make human beings[a] in our image, to be like us.” He made us like Him so we could connect with Him in an intimate and meaningful
...n image of desolate grief that the lone brother feels for his lifeless sibling. Image is truly the most important element in the style of this story.
us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the
who made thee?" So God created man in His own image; in the image of God
...ost imitative of living creatures, and through imitation learns his earliest lessons; and no less universal is the pleasure felt in things imitated. We have evidence of this in the facts of experience. Objects which in themselves we view with pain, we delight to contemplate when reproduced with minute fidelity: such as the forms of the most ignoble animals and of dead bodies. The cause of this again is, that to learn gives the liveliest pleasure, not only to philosophers but to men in general; whose capacity, however, of learning is more limited. Thus the reason why men enjoy seeing a likeness is, that in contemplating it they find themselves learning or inferring, and saying perhaps, 'Ah, that is he.' For if you happen not to have seen the original, the pleasure will be due not to the imitation as such, but to the execution, the coloring, or some such other cause.'
In the first few lines, the speaker uses “soul,” rather than “person,” in order to express that the view connects to him in an ethereal way, transcending the tangible plane: it doesn’t just satisfy his body, specifically his eyes and ears; the beauty penetrates his inner being, allowing the speaker to fully delight in his experience on the bridge (Wordsworth 2). Continuing, the speaker mentions the “majesty” of what he sees (2). The term not only relates to the power and influence of a sovereign, but also to the goodness and splendor of God. In regards to an almighty being, the speaker may be expressing that the sight before him is so great that it is worthy of veneration. By choosing these particular words, the speaker reveals how the scene from the bridge has an“almost religious effect on him,” showing the importance of the visual he sees; in doing so, the speaker is seemingly trying to convince the reader to feel the same way
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1 New American Standard Bible. It’s understood in Genesis 2:7 (New American Standard Bible) that life in fact was created by God. God created man from dust on the ground, breathed it, and man became a living creature. God created humans to be able to reproduce to create more life.
We can see this from the account of creation in Genesis 2 where God made Adam and Eve in his own likeness. Though Adam’s sin distorted the full nature of God in man, this didn’t stop God from demonstrating his nature through the relationship He had with his creation. Also Steven Lemke in his article “The Intelligent Design of Human” explained the image of God using these three views. They are the functionalist view, the rationalist view, and the substantive view. The functionalist view describes God as a non-static being, by this it means that God deposited his divine abilities into man; so that man can demonstrate dominion over what He has made.
For example, almost all the Christians who work at their workplace have to face spiritual worldliness. It is common to socialize with other coworkers. However, when they meet each other outside of their workplace, they tend to go to a bar or somewhere they can drink alcohol. Christians might be tempted to drink alcohol, because they have strong desires of flesh. However, if they set apart from the worldliness, they may banish their desires of the flesh and follow the Word of God. Furthermore, holiness helps Christians to warn or flee from disobedient Christians (2. Thess. 3:6, 14-15; 1 Cor. 5:9-13). In other words, holiness helps the Christian to see himself, whether he is obeying God or not, and helps him to distinguish whether his bretheren obeys the Word of God or not.
The Christian faith is grounded upon the understanding that there is a God, and God has revealed Himself to man in the Scriptures. We need to search the meaningful authority to prove and to acknowledge the divine authority. But human beings with their darkened minds and limited powers cannot infiltrate the knowledge of God. We have to humbly ourselves and let the Scriptures express themselves since God Almighty has revealed Himself in the Scriptures.
...n had / Itself to be imagined.” through the poems backwards way of evidencing through what isn’t there, the poem begins to speak very powerfully of the power of imagination. Imagination can imagine itself and it’s absence; it almost borders a power of self-creation. This could echo the Christian God’s statement, “I am that I am” — God’s power to name himself, to create and define both Himself and his absence.
Every day God created something new and blesses it. God created nothing irrelevant or unworthy. Entirely everything he created served a purpose. Also all he had created came from nothing. The fish were undeniably produced out of the waters, and the beasts and man out of the earth; but that earth and those waters were made out of nothing. God created what is known as the world today and everything that exists on the earth. Reading Genesis 1 gives all mankind an idea of how life started and how the earth was formed to be this magnificent place. The earth is very complicated yet God could solve all of the problems and create blessings. He gave us light and darkness, day and night, water and land. He created all living creature including mankind.
One may ask what exactly does it mean to be made in God’s image. For someone not familiar with the Christian religion may find this as confusing. Living in God’s image does not exactly mean living as if you are God, which would blasphemy, but instead use our attributes that God has given us that are similar to His own. Christians are aware that God’s image is holy, merciful, benevolent, just, independent, and also rational since he has the ability to reason. Thus since humans were created in God’s image, we all encompass these characteristics.