Humans as Middle Management • Image of God Ep. 1

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ม.ค. 2023
  • What does it mean that humans were created in "the image of God." Jon and Tim discuss this biblical theme and its implications for Jesus followers.

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  • @bibleproject
    @bibleproject  ปีที่แล้ว +13

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  • @taraschmutzler4039
    @taraschmutzler4039 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    I was needing something to meditate on while I go to sleep. Thank you for the upload and blessings to all of those who read this and to all that do not as well. God is good!

    • @anitamorrison4238
      @anitamorrison4238 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Grace, mercy, and peace to you.

    • @steveaird9347
      @steveaird9347 ปีที่แล้ว

      I must have complete quiet go to sleep no sound

  • @ianfitzpatrick2230
    @ianfitzpatrick2230 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    The evangelical community is shocking but I must say I love this whole project, the power in comprehending what this ancient culture is trying to present to us in their view and time. Cultural relativism is something as a human I’ve lacked in my daily life let alone reading texts written by and for ancient cultures. I pray for guidance, understanding, and the softest heart when approaching these words

  • @marymumani6650
    @marymumani6650 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I have been one blessed women since i found “The Bible Project “!! Thank you guys for Helping us understand the Bible so well!

  • @huds0n
    @huds0n ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Starts at 3:00

  • @Window4503
    @Window4503 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    “Subdue my backyard” is something that actually happened to my family and I. We had just moved into a new house and the previous owner, because she was grieving her husband, had let the backyard get out of control. The very center was a mass of weeds and flowers several feet high, like a chunk of wild prairie had taken over the yard. It took several months to subdue it and turn the backyard into a beautiful place to host family gatherings.

    • @canusnurse
      @canusnurse ปีที่แล้ว +1

      yes, just like our new nature in Christ; we work to control the weeds, the old nature before Christ; and it's continual work to keep it as a place that gives our soul rest and peace in the same as your backyard gives physical rest. Beautiful lessons the Spirit teaches us. Have a blessed day.

  • @jaguilar8973
    @jaguilar8973 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Thanks Tim, Jon and all team members for this wonderful podcast!!❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏🙏 It really helps to understand scripture better and strengthen our faith!!!

  • @bostonblackie9503
    @bostonblackie9503 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I have never seen the world in such a mess and people so troubled. I have my own ideas as to why, as in we have done it to ourselves. People need spirituality in their lives! God!

  • @WGPower_Nonchalant_Cafe
    @WGPower_Nonchalant_Cafe ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The image of God is not a quality like consciousness otherwise anybody who's unconscious doesn't have the image of God. The image of God is a role given to you by God. It is a function

  • @evelynbarton6349
    @evelynbarton6349 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Fantastic teaching! Thank You Jesus!

  • @christ-Revealed
    @christ-Revealed ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Freewill makes us an image of God, literally being concrete in flesh and blood makes us an image of christ as the glorified christ was flesh and bones as he told Thomas. Image of God is carrying the name of God, his character of righteousness, peace, joy, life and light.

    • @marcusg6904
      @marcusg6904 ปีที่แล้ว

      We don’t have free will and CHRIST didn’t either.

  • @lostgurl1379
    @lostgurl1379 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Three minutes of introductory music is waaaaay too long. Everyone I share this with, I'll have to forwarn so they don't get turned off and tune out. Otherwise, have always enjoyed your videos. Please make a correction with this one. Thank you.

  • @nyquil350
    @nyquil350 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Some people do live in a place called “home”where they are to obey the predator in uniform and can’t “subdue “or death is usually the consequences ,some people do live in fear that the animal(people who abuse their authority)will jump out and devour them.

  • @panteamaddah82
    @panteamaddah82 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The back ground musics are really nice ❤ and of course thank you for sharing your knowledge with us 😊🙏

  • @robinallison54
    @robinallison54 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Chapter 1 is the written plan of what He will do and chapter 2 is the plan in action. It's what He actually did.

  • @ilovegodandjesusjohn316
    @ilovegodandjesusjohn316 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    John 16:33
    These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

  • @ashleytkl3036
    @ashleytkl3036 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I haven't visited this channel for a while. Glad I did.

  • @NotesofGrace
    @NotesofGrace ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I love the BILLY MADISON REFERENCE!! I do interviews with Evanglists, preachers, teachers, Worship leaders, and more. I do a lighting round of questions and often I ask what is your opinion of Adam Sandler? Hahah love that someone else used Adam Sandler and related it to Christianity and the Bible.

    • @maggielaw6320
      @maggielaw6320 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Lol thinking about their pride driving them off a cliff... reminds me of the prophets😂 or John 3:17-18

  • @freedom.families
    @freedom.families ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow, so powerful ahas!!💡

  • @TheCreepypro
    @TheCreepypro 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    help us to manage your world the way you want us to Lord

  • @galhanu
    @galhanu ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Is it just me or is the beginning of the video is messed up?
    I got three minutes of music and it began in the middle of the discussion 🤨

  • @SF-zc6nh
    @SF-zc6nh ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The mandate to subdue seems similar to the rewards spoken by Jesus in Revelation 1 & 2 to those who overcome. To subdue, to overcome.

  • @Aether550
    @Aether550 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I wish Jon was not on this podcast. I felt like he took away from the wisdom with his interruptions and comedic inferences. Really love hearing the main guy speak. It gives me fulfillment hearing the wisdom. Jon man, you seem so eager to speak its really inhibiting the flow.

  • @johnnyholloway285
    @johnnyholloway285 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It was a choice for Father to create everything in 7 days. He could have done it in 700, 70000000, or 7/10ths of a second.

  • @NotesofGrace
    @NotesofGrace ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thank you this is very interesting I'm listening to it now as we speak! :)

  • @ahenfieasetenatv2453
    @ahenfieasetenatv2453 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    God bless you

  • @anal.mendoza
    @anal.mendoza ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Hi Tim and Jon! Greetings from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic! I really loved this episode!

  • @jrose4351
    @jrose4351 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You should make a video on rahab, I’m a relatively new Christian and I hear about her a lot but I’m not really sure what she did

  • @carolynbillington9018
    @carolynbillington9018 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    the music punctuation is good on a long teaching---of course the teaching is the best

  • @RawH2o
    @RawH2o ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Abba Father's blessings

  • @checkmatenate
    @checkmatenate ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Humans once knew the earth to be flat and they knew that as fact. They they found out the earth was round now they know that as facts. Point I’m making is that facts can change.

  • @churchseeds
    @churchseeds ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The Image of God - God trusting His called-out community to reach out and change the world:
    Adam and Eve
    Abraham
    David and Solomon
    Israel
    The Disciples
    The Church
    Will we fulfill our design or will we return to the path of control and violence?

  • @reykayo
    @reykayo ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Verse actually says man was made in the shadow of God. Meaning we are a restriction of God. Without this shadow there would be no room for man. God withdrew His unveiled presence to create the vessel of our existence. Because of the closeness of of the word shadow and imagine kabbalistically we can use the idea of 'equivalency of form' to gain further understanding to the nature of this shadow. The reason this word was translated to "image" in the Septuagint was because of this understanding passed down in The Oral Torah which the 70 wanted to forefront this understanding when they were forced to hand a transition over....just like the first of the 10 Commandments where God just state's His sovereign title and say's nothing else...the ”have no other god's..." is just be understood in that decoloration and was passed down through The Oral Torah.

  • @fredpratt5297
    @fredpratt5297 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow you are good people

  • @_Grego_
    @_Grego_ 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    @bibleproject... not sure if I'm doing something wrong but the podcast starts 3 minutes of music and then it starts in a middle of a thought. 2:56

  • @edwardmelick1542
    @edwardmelick1542 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Why is there music for the first 3:00 and we then join the conversation mid-stream? What happened to the Image of God material at 0:47?

  • @artisticendeavors5076
    @artisticendeavors5076 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What if God moulded dirt (dust of the ground) and other earth elements (water) and made a clay-like working copy of what man would look like physically (sculpture)...then breathed (introduced air) and Adam was alive (very much looking like the sculpture to the smallest detail).
    Do we not do the same thing?

  • @Whatsdogpee
    @Whatsdogpee ปีที่แล้ว

    2016? Is this a re-upload?

  • @mo86r97
    @mo86r97 ปีที่แล้ว

    It started off by identifying the biblical inferences to roles of historical kings and emperors as gods whose words brought creation into existence like god. Strangely it didn’t maintain that bit of revelation instead deviated into the infusion of divinity in humans and its empowerment as rulers but denying god likeness or attempting to be god, which is the essence of sin, as a result.
    There is much acquired knowledge but no revelation of what the “image” means which explained the disconnection and illogicality in the narrative.
    Finally it led to the devolvement of the kingdom of god to domesticated rulers in people.
    Mat 25:12 But he answered and said, Truly I say to you, I do not know you.

  • @Annabee399
    @Annabee399 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I agree. Biblical Prophecy tells us that we are living in the final days. It's not safe anywhere at all times. Evil is at its worst. Yet God is Almighty, and His people must stand up for righteousness.🙏🛡️

    • @jakeofalltradesmusic
      @jakeofalltradesmusic ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It's been like this. From what I can tell of stuff with earthquakes and blood moons and famines and wars, etc... These things have always happened, and so we must always be alert for Christ's coming... Not just looking for the sign and then trying to get our acts together, as if we were cramming for an exam.

    • @Annabee399
      @Annabee399 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jakeofalltradesmusic Exactly.! 👍🙏🙌

  • @christianblack9426
    @christianblack9426 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I agree with your characterization of subduing, I would however take that a step further in saying that part of what initially made the earth "tohu wabohu" is that evil elohim such as the satan existed upon it, and through mankind's existence "the visible image of the invisible God..." (Col. 1:15) would come and SUBDUE the evil elohim "bind the strong man" and "plunder his goods" (Matt 12:29) by His death and resurrection. Thus Christ the ultimate Human, God in a Bod would subdue the earth and conquer Satan's territory which is the earth itself, and the human race in slavery to sin and death, and first He has subdued us by freeing us from that slavery by His death and resurrection, but He is also going to come and completely finish the subduing of the earth.
    Also in Genesis 2 it doesn't appear at all in either the Hebrew or the English that animals were made after humans, it looks as though God already recognizes Adam's need, so He has Adam NAME the animals to awaken ADAM'S recognition of his own need, and in that he sees that he does not have a companion of his own.
    I would have to disagree with your interpretation of God's breath in Genesis 2 as being related to our ability to reason and our higher intellectual abilities. If you read that point in context, it says that only after we had received the breath of God were we "living souls." To LIVE in John 17, Jesus says is to KNOW the One true God and Jesus Christ Whom He has sent. God promises man that when he eats of the fruit, He will "surely die" so it seems that the BREATH of God is His own Holy Spirit which He gave to us to live and function and be in co-dependent relationship and even PARTNERSHIP with God. However when we ATE the fruit, we REJECTED God's diving life, and became DEAD to God, and fell into slavery to sin and death. I would say that there is no reason that only because of the surrounding context of subduing and being fruitful and multiplying, the image of God cannot ALSO refer to our reasoning and intelligence.

    • @christianblack9426
      @christianblack9426 ปีที่แล้ว

      Also, the ULTIMATE Holy Icon and graven Image of God that we walk past with reverence is of course God's graven Image Himself, Jesus Christ, Who came to restore the Spirit of God within us, by fulfilling the old Covenant, and putting us under the law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus (Romans 8).

  • @TupacMakaveli1996
    @TupacMakaveli1996 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If Enuma Elish is incorrect, what makes genesis story correct?

  • @SolZaer
    @SolZaer ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Interesting the Babylon also thought humans came from dirt. But different but similar material as our myth

  • @LuisYoutubes
    @LuisYoutubes ปีที่แล้ว

    What does it mean to be “made it the image” of god ? I havnt looked into it yet

    • @TupacMakaveli1996
      @TupacMakaveli1996 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Doing what god or gods have been doing. Bringing order to chaos

  • @itoshechisho8397
    @itoshechisho8397 ปีที่แล้ว

    Background music is so distracting
    Dial it down a bit

  • @SeanRhoadesChristopher
    @SeanRhoadesChristopher ปีที่แล้ว

    I see male as father and female as mother in Heaven. The correct chronology Day Six ( יוֹם שִׁישִׁי {yo-m shee/SHEE}) (Gen 1:24-26; 2:4-3:24; 1:27-2:1)

  • @johnnyholloway285
    @johnnyholloway285 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You have to really pay attention to the very beginning of Genesis, but JESUS, the only son of God walked and was right beside the Father before the creation of time.

  • @Jesusisking2
    @Jesusisking2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I guess we shall see if this comes to pass.
    Deuteronomy 18:17-22
    17 “Then the Lord said to me, ‘What they have said is right. 18 I will raise up a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell the people everything I command him. 19 I will personally deal with anyone who will not listen to the messages the prophet proclaims on my behalf. 20 But any prophet who falsely claims to speak in my name or who speaks in the name of another god must die.’
    21 “But you may wonder, ‘How will we know whether or not a prophecy is from the Lord?’ 22 If the prophet speaks in the Lord’s name but his prediction does not happen or come true, you will know that the Lord did not give that message. That prophet has spoken without my authority and need not be feared.

  • @stevecoley8365
    @stevecoley8365 ปีที่แล้ว

    X-Files
    Humans vs. Alien Vampires
    Humans (love) are made in the image of good (god).
    The hostile alien vampires (greed) are made in the image of dogs, wolves and pigs,
    Question. Why are the evangelical counting corpses using the bible a springboard to perform somersaults to do the exact opposite of "love their neighbors" and "treat others like they want to be treated"?
    Answer. This is sick. Because these simple concepts are too far out there to grasp for vampires.
    Vampires (greed) who suck the joy out of life have joined the zombies who eat the futures of their children.
    Zombie Apocalypse is here and happening now.
    Lead into gold
    Tears into roses
    Weapons into ploughshares
    Or at least weapons into pianos, paint brushes and joy creating stuff like that.

  • @youtubeis...
    @youtubeis... ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Do you ever think that the fruit of knowledge may have actually been a fruit, some sort of psychedelic compound where they got drunk and had sex. And this represented the fallen knowledge of brewing substances. The fallen mysteries.

    • @craigbelcourt942
      @craigbelcourt942 ปีที่แล้ว

      As a troll you're not very good. Keep practicing and you'll get better. 👍

  • @apophenic_
    @apophenic_ ปีที่แล้ว

    So glad I'm not one of you any longer.

    • @takyrica
      @takyrica ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What is ‘one of you’?

    • @apophenic_
      @apophenic_ ปีที่แล้ว

      @@takyrica chrisitan.

    • @cyberfilmproductions8987
      @cyberfilmproductions8987 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why do you say that?

    • @takyrica
      @takyrica ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@apophenic_ got it 👍🏾

    • @HearGodsWord
      @HearGodsWord ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not sure you ever were in the first place

  • @franciscosandiego3026
    @franciscosandiego3026 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Cry out to God Jesus is coming soon 🔜🔜🔜🔜 repentttttt

    • @crystallight328
      @crystallight328 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I hope Jesus comes. We need him. Amen.

    • @carolynemakokha5854
      @carolynemakokha5854 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      This is quite deceptive and misleading and more of new age theology, this is not the bible at all.

    • @chriswoodgate6689
      @chriswoodgate6689 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@carolynemakokha5854 hey god will come for us and if u keep going down this path you’ll face god and his fury

    • @ianfitzpatrick2230
      @ianfitzpatrick2230 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It’s like do you even listen to what this project is saying? It’s not about needing to repent because Jesus is coming to punish us, the whole book isn’t about punishment

    • @canucktruckerbear
      @canucktruckerbear ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ianfitzpatrick2230 don't listen to anything the false Bible project says,
      The best lies are wrapped in truth....
      Go read your Bible, your gonna notice that this is garbage

  • @qwerty-so6ml
    @qwerty-so6ml 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Genesis 1 is Lucifer and the fallen angels.
    They made man in their image.
    Man is an idol.
    Only one Gospel:
    The Gospel of Reconciliation.
    Jesus Christ came into THEIR kingdom
    to reconcile fallen angels unto Himself.
    We are the fallen angels (ELOHIM) kept in DNA chains of darkness.
    If you do not confess being a fallen angel in Lucifer's kingdom, then you are an unbeliever.
    Unbeliever = those that claim to be made in the image of ELOHIM(gods).
    REPENT FALLEN ANGELS.

  • @canucktruckerbear
    @canucktruckerbear ปีที่แล้ว +1

    at five min I started scratching a hole in my head.
    What kinda jargon is this?
    A poem??
    A bloody poem???
    It's not a poem!!🤦🏻
    Does the Bible project not believe the BiBle as inerrant??
    How is Genesis 1: 27 a poem??
    And what is with all the "culture talk"???
    This is woke too, it wreaks of wolf's breath!!!!!

    • @Corey_Augraph
      @Corey_Augraph ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Why would you not want to understand the Bible in the context of the same culture that Christ lived in?

    • @russellwilliams5065
      @russellwilliams5065 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Just because it’s is written as poetry doesn’t mean God didn’t create. It seems like you are looking for something to point out as the enemy….

    • @canucktruckerbear
      @canucktruckerbear ปีที่แล้ว

      @@russellwilliams5065 it's not written as a poem though, so to call history a poem, inclines me to call it jargon
      And after a little research, on this Bible project and Tim makie( pardon me if it's spelt wrong)
      Im doubling down, this place is a deadly rabbit hole to hell, with a Bible label on it....
      According to the Bible project, there is no Heaven or hell and they are pushing a "universal Christ", social Justice, and the likes, and..... it's obvious they don't present the Bible as any truth, but "cultural stories" to identify with.......

    • @russellwilliams5065
      @russellwilliams5065 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@canucktruckerbear just because a poem seems insignificant to you, doesn’t mean it’s not extremely spiritual and meaningful tho those who wrote the God inspired scriptures. And I have be listening to the Bible project for over 5 years a long several other biblical scholars who who can read Hebrew and Greek and their claims seem to be factually solid. It’s seems like their biggest flaw is that it doesn’t align neatly with western evangelical conservatism. Apparently a Godly understanding of justice and righteousness is woke these days. I don’t think God roasts people for being “woke”. Calling everything you don’t understand a like a hell hole is helping no one. Our faith isn’t a team sport.

    • @canucktruckerbear
      @canucktruckerbear ปีที่แล้ว

      @@russellwilliams5065 it's not a poem!!

  • @canucktruckerbear
    @canucktruckerbear ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ok, when even ruslan is calling out The (false) Bible project......
    REPENT OF THIS BLASPHEMY!!!!!!!

  • @mohammadabrar6006
    @mohammadabrar6006 ปีที่แล้ว

    "The Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, was no more than a messenger of Allah"

  • @MachmadBerekia
    @MachmadBerekia ปีที่แล้ว

    God bless you, I'm very blessed every time that I come to your project. Thank you very much!!!!❤️🫂. God won't forget you.
    I love you !!!!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️4