JOHN MACARTHUR - In what way are we made in the image of God?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- A questions and answers session with Joel Kim, Steven Lawson, John MacArthur, and Stephen Nichols from March 2021. Go go Ligonier.com for more information. They have fantastic and biblically sound theology.
For me , the answer to this question begins by first understanding the term IMAGE. and the term LIKENESS, in Genesis 1 27.
Secondly, the understanding that the Bible, or the gospel and scriptures are pointing us to Jesus.
Then the gospel of John, from 1.1 begins to describe what is in Genesis 1.27, where it says, LET US..IN OUR then image and likeness.
Then we get to a stage of defining Man. Man is Spirit, living in a body, and has soul. Remember, spirit is unseen, but the body can be seen, and therefore, the body is the image of the unseen spirit Man.
Now, John begins by introducing Jesus, as God, as defined in Colosians 1,15.
In the beginning was the Word(Jesus)
The word was with God.
The word was God.
The word created all things that were created. Created for Himself, by Himself.
The word became flesh, remember, Man at this stage, Man was not created as yet, and Jesus was not Jesus yet, but He was there, as the Word.
Remember, when He said, before Abraham, I am and Remember also, the fourth man in the fire when the 3 Hebrews were put on fire.
Remember also, when Jesus said, why do you ask the father, if you have seen me, you have seen the Father....
To explain the God, for would therefore be like explaining the Kingdom where a King is the image of that kingdom(Government) in other words,
God =Government(invisible)
Image= Jesus(king) visible
So, we were created in accordance with Jesus, in other words, Jesus did not become like man, but man was made to be like Jesus before Jesus was revealed as man through Marry.
The likeness side is that which is explained above, spirit, flesh and soul,
But God is Father, Spirirt and Son, and then we were given the dominion on Earth, while Jesus had the Dominion in heavenly realm.
That is the explanation of Genesis 1 27.🙏
Image in Genesis 1:26 is Hebrew word 6754 tsalem; fanthom, illusion, vain show, especially an idol!
The Lord God HATES IDOLS so He sure ain't making them. God in Genesis 1 is ELOHIM (angels, magistrates, and judges OF the Supreme God) Jesus is the Supreme God so He ain't OF Himself.
To accurately say anything about Genesis 1 you would have to say a bunch of angels said they were going to make male and female in a vain show as an idol!
It's the purpose for redemption. When Jesus redeemed His people they were in the image (which is a different word altogether than Genesis 1) they THEN became a Christlike representative.
So many people are lost!
I think MacArthur meant to say we are "immortal". We have a beginning but have no end. God is eternal because he both has no beginning and no end.
God made man in His image and likeness Genesis 1:26,27. Having dominion over the creation although natural calamities are uncertain.Humans represents God within the physical realm as having authority and power. Building relationships, ability to create and discover,only creature excluding angelic beings or spiritual realm to be able to speak and communicate.We represent God in the physical world to His creation and other creatures.
We are the image of God qualities responsible
Compassion
Truthful Acts.
Who is this lady. I would love to hear her experiences and discoveries. To marvel at our God for His glory!
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That humans are created in the image of God is explicit from the first pages of the Scriptures (Gen. 1:27). Yet what exactly this means has become the subject of seemingly endless speculations, particularly when this reality is extracted from its specific context and purpose in the Genesis narrative. In contemporary theology, such discourses most often manifest in identifying “the image of God” in man with some characteristic or characteristics of the human person. Rationality, language, or freedom, for example, become the hallmarks of God’s image within humanity.
This approach is problematic, to say the least. On one hand, as we advance in our knowledge and understanding of other creatures God has made, we see more and more that human consciousness is not necessarily unique but rather lies on a continuum with the consciousness other living things possess. Certain human qualities can also be found in animals, albeit to a lesser degree. On the other hand, some people lack certain uniquely human characteristics, generally near the beginning or end of life. The theological premise for the innate value of every human person is the notion that human persons are image-bearers. The nature of the divine image, therefore, cannot become the means of dehumanizing those incapable of reason, language, or substantive choice.
In order to understand the nature of God’s image, it is better to turn directly to the scriptural texts in which this terminology is used in order to understand how it is being used in its original context. The narrative of Creation is the story of God creating a sacred space in which to dwell with His creation, humanity. God does not need a physical space in which to live, but humans, as finite creations, do. In describing such a space, the text of Genesis 1 and 2 follows the pat- tern of the construction of an ancient temple. In the religious imagination of the nations surrounding Israel, their gods lived in one of two places, either in a garden or on a mountain.
This is not to say that these pagans were correct, or that the God of Israel is like their gods. Rather, it is to say that when God spoke to ancient people, to describe to them this creation of sacred space, He spoke to them using language and imagery that they would understand. And so, the space that God creates in Genesis is a sacred garden. This garden imagery would later be further developed in the decorations of Solomon’s temple. The tabernacle, on the other hand, followed the pattern of God’s dwelling atop Mount Sinai, into which Moses entered (Acts 7:44; Heb. 9:11, 23).
The final step in the creation of an ancient Near Eastern temple was the installation of the god’s image or idol. After its installation, a ceremony was performed in order to open its mouth and nose so that the spirit of the god could enter into it. This requires a word about idolatry, and how it functioned in the ancient world. Ancient people worshipped and sought to interact with, through acts of worship, spiritual powers. In order for the people to interact with these spirits, the spirits needed to take up residence in a body. The most common mode of this interaction was through the construction of a body for the god by its worshippers, an idol. After the construction of the body, a ritual was undertaken that would “open the nostrils” of the image so that the spirit could enter into it and take up residence. Once the divine spirit was inhabiting the image, the primary task of the priests was to care for the idol by keeping it clean, dressing it, bringing it food and drink, maintaining its home in the temple, and so on.
It is this that engendered the extended critiques of idolatry throughout Scripture (see Is. 44). It is not merely that humans are worshipping rocks and chunks of wood rather than the God who created them. There is inherent foolishness at work here. If a so-called god is unable to clean itself, dress, maintain its own home, or even pick itself up off the floor if tipped over, how could one possibly believe that such a being could bring rain or great yields of crops? If it cannot govern even the most basic functions of life, how could it govern a nation or the world? And yet all these rituals are aimed at one goal, to use the temple and the image to control the god and get it to do what one wants. The image of the god is the place where it encounters the human world.
What we see in Genesis is precisely the reverse of this pagan practice. Upon the completion of His own temple, His own sacred space, God then creates His own image. After creating a human person as His image, God Himself breathes into him the breath of life, opening his nostrils and causing him to live and function as God’s image. The gift given to human persons is to be the means by which God acts in His creation. This is a privilege, as God does not need humanity in order to act in creation, any more than He needed a creation in which to act. The expulsion from Paradise then represents the failure of humanity to serve as the image of God. Rather than participating in the works of God, man undertakes his own work, another foreign motion of his will. At this point, as the Fathers distinguish between image and likeness, humanity lost the likeness to God, though human persons continue to be God’s image, such that the reverence that is shown for a human person passes on to his Creator as does the lack thereof (Gen. 9:6; Matt. 25:31-46). The true and full imaging of God in human nature, unfulfilled by humanity in sinfulness, finds its fulfillment in the Person of Jesus Christ. In Christ, God perfectly reveals Himself in and through human nature. Christ is, in fact, the express image of the Father (Col. 1:15; Heb. 1:3). This mystery is developed in Scripture in the context of a meditation on the formation of Christ’s body, parallel to the cre- ation of Adam. Hebrews 10:5-7 cites Psalm 40/39, applying its words to Christ. Specifically, Hebrews quotes the Greek rendering of verse 5, “a body You have made for Me.” This is contrasted with the desire for sacrifices and offerings.
Here we see the inversion of the pagan view that God desires humans to fulfill some need on His part, which He will reward with blessings. Rather, God desires that human persons share in His life by participating in His working in the world, that they become righ- teous by participating in His righteousness, good by participating in His goodness, holy by participating in His holiness, and so on. He desires that they function as His image. Christ, as God Himself, gives perfect expression to the character of God, doing only the works of the Father (see John 5:17; 9:4; 10:37). The Hebrew of Psalm 40/39 uses the idiom of God having opened His ears, an idiom also used in Isaiah 50:5 to describe God’s suffering servant, who, unlike Adam, does not rebel.
Through His death and Resurrection, Christ has restored human nature in its function as the image of God. This restoration brings about the descent of the Holy Spirit, which fills human persons in whom the image of God has been restored through baptism into Christ. It is in this way, the Holy Spirit coming to indwell the Chris- tian, that human persons are empowered to serve as God’s image in His creation. It is through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit that human persons come to participate in the working of God in the world, to do the works that He has prepared in advance for them to do (Eph. 2:10). These are God’s own works, and so God can look on them and declare them to be good. In its turn, serving as God’s image by participation brings about growth into God’s likeness (Phil. 2:12-13). It is transformative of human persons, both restoring and healing them from the effects of sin, and ever more conforming them to the likeness of Jesus Christ.
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Which version of man was made in Gods image? The current version looks nothing like previous versions
The literal translation is "made in OUR image". You will have to get a more accurate Bible.. one that is not just translated by someone with an agenda....
God's image can begin with a fundamental understanding of the cyclical nature of reality (God).
Represented by the snake in many creation myths, the living cycle has a trinity of a beginning (head), a middle and end (tail). As above so below, the sexes were created in the image of God's cyclical nature where Mother is the head and opening to all beginnings and Father holds the tail to all endings (through which the sowing of seeds allow for the next great matriarchal rebirth).The joining of the two (symbolized by the Ouroborus or the marriage ring) is the sacred union needed in assuring the creation and continuation of new life cycles. To speak of the present day God as "Our Father" is simply an admission to our collective positioning within the bigger cycle.
As all mothers have direct experience with the creator quality of birthing, so is the direct experience of rebirthing the divinity within (baptism) belong to that which is spiritually matriarchal. (John 3, verse 3-8).
Sekhmet statues (ancient Egyptian) carry most of their weight in symbolic memory of what was a mother culture dedicated to the direct experience of baptism. As the leg shaped hairlocks extend from maternal breasts to the womb of rebirth, the lioness's head proportions are such that they highlight the bust of a second animal figure. The Lioness's ears as eyes and eyes as nose (nostrils) brings to life the figure of a reptile. 'Neath the halo headress of the solar egg, the lioness's egg fertilization process being internal (Set) and the reptile's egg fertilization process being external (Setting), such being key components to the safety of entering the trans-egoic or "born again" state. The life threatening fear associated with the predatory nature of a lion and/or crocodile encounter are reflective of the intense ego death experiences associated with the transpersonal awakening process.
In spiritually matriarchal times, illumination could be seen as wearing the false beard (ancient Egyptian funerary "ego" death mask) as the high state of cyclical self knowing; high awareness of both our upper matriarchal half and our lower (later) patriarchal half (compared with a mini lower body replica, an "as above so below" tail end beard extension); in full recognition of her civilizational Underworld, her inevitable cyclical destiny. The male pharaoh wears his beard tapered in reverse, indicating a pointing upwards towards the patriarchal head, divine representative of God's tail end cycle.
Mary Magdalene's anointing and wiping of Jesus's feet with her hair can then be seen as head to tail (toe) imagery as she descends her matriarchal head to his patriarchal feet, thus reenacting the high understanding of the divine cyclical process. (John 12:3)
To carry the Ankh (now the female symbol ♀️) was perhaps to symbolically carry that upper and lower understanding. As the upper matriarchal womb symbolised the fertile birthing of civilization, below, the now Christian cross is carried to place emphasis on the lower (later) "End Times" Father principle of the great cycle.
Lord Ganesha, the elephant headed Hindu diety, displays a cyclical head to trunk symbolism and points to the Mother head of his matriarchal elephant society. Ganesha (like the elephant) wears God's cyclical nature on his face.
A whole temple was dedicated to the ancient Egyptian goddess Hathor, who is the matriarchal "Uterus" personified. th-cam.com/video/J0m0zJSEFK0/w-d-xo.html
"See all women as mothers, serve them as your mother. When you see the entire world as the mother, the ego falls away. See everything as Mother and you will know God." - Neem Karoli Baba
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).
The bible says man (can mean mankind) was made in his IMAGE and LIKNESS,, no but if or but (NO man had seen God) the DNA prove we did not come from monkey... Caveman are not from monkeys... lets take the bible as it says and don't put in for are own reason. Or is the bible or scripture into our own meaning... is church and money more wroth the the bible and faith
Father God created man from the dust and he just stood their.
Then God blew the spirit of life into man's nostrils.
He gave man the ability to dominate the entire earth.
Animal bird and fish of the sea.
Then he made a compliment for man woman from man's rib cage.
Now after centuries mankind wanted to rule himself and at the book of Samuel Israel asked for a king Saul was given that authority to be king.
Father God was furious just give them what they want they don't offend you Samuel they offend me the one and only true God Yahweh.
I am what I am.
Therefore after God made man in his own image both male and female with the holy spirit God's active force in their hearts and minds.
Giving man the full authority over everything that God made.
Man rebelled against his God's rulership.
Greed for authority and power made man rebell against authority of God.
Therefore we see this today 5,000 year's after this rebellion with kingdom and government officials and political parties and leader's leading man to his own ruin.
To change things rebellion father God made the provision for a messiah anointed one to reconcile mankind back to pure unadulterated worship.
Jesus was for told by the prophets exactly what man needed to do.
John chapter 3 v 3 Jesus said you must be born again to see the kingdom of god.
Mark chapter 16 v 15 to 20 say's these signs shall accompany those who believe.
Speak with tongues
Pick up snakes and drink poison and it won't hurt you.
Obviously we don't intentionally pick up snakes and drink poison nonetheless the provision is available written in the bible.
Cast out demons
Layhands on the sick and they shall recover.
Matthew chapter 18 v 28 says Jesus said it was given to me all authority in heaven and earth go into the entire world preaching the gospel.
Matthew chapter 10 v 1 Jesus gave the 12 disciples authority.
Luke chapter 10 v 1 Jesus gave the 70 disciples authority.
Acts chapter 2 v 1 to 13 promised holy spirit arrives on the head's of the 120 in the upper room of the inn.
Not temple or palace public house.
Isaiah chapter 53 v 4 to 5 by his stripes Jesus we are healed.
1 Peter 2 v 24 by his stripes we are healed.
Therefore God gave mankind dominion over the entire world