We are NOT the image of God
From Sensus Plenior
We are NOT the image of God
Read closely what God said:
▸ ± Ge 1:26 ¶ 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 air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
▸ ± Ge 1:27 So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
He has a diminishing scope of what he accomplished:
- Let us make man in our image, after our likeness (image and likeness)
- So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; {no likeness)
- male and female created he them. (no image or likeness)
This is a prophetic riddle, not a poetic redundancy. One cannot solve the riddle until more information is known.
Additional information
- 2. The church is made to be like Christ. [5]
- 3. When Paul speaks of marriage, he speaks of Christ and the church. [6]
The solution to the riddle
The purpose of the scripture is to speak of Christ. [7] [8]
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▸ ± Heb 1:3 Who being the brightness of [his] glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;</span>
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- ↑ ▸ ± 2Co 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. </span> </li>
- ↑ ▸ ± Col 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:</span> </li>
- ↑ ▸ ± Col 3:10 And have put on the new [man], which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:</span> </li>
- ↑ ▸ ± 1Jo 3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. </span> </li>
- ↑ ▸ ± Eph 5:32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.</span> </li>
- ↑ ▸ ± Lu 24:27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.</span> </li>
- ↑ ▸ ± Joh 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.</span> </li> </ol>
- ↑ ▸ ± 2Co 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. </span> </li>
