In God's image

[Ross]

Genesis 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."

What does it mean that man was created "in God's image?"

On a secondary note, the following verse says:

"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."

Does Genesis 1: 27 indicate that God is both male and female?

[OneJack]

Obviously, what you’re saying here is just your opinion, which neither John nor the Son narrated in the scriptures.

To the contrary:

"with" and "face to face" is the direct translation from the verse. Koine' Greek to English. Check it out in any interlinear.

To reject that is to reject the clear unambiguous message of the relationship of The Word and The God in that verse.

Take John’s and I’ll take the Son’s if the bible is the source of the utterances of God.

[Ross]

Obviously, what you’re saying here is just your opinion, which neither John nor the Son narrated in the scriptures.

To the contrary:

"with" and "face to face" is the direct translation from the verse. Koine' Greek to English. Check it out in any interlinear.

To reject that is to reject the clear unambiguous message of the relationship of The Word and The God in that verse.

Take John’s and I’ll take the Son’s if the bible is the source of the utterances of God.

No problem. But it's all there in the clearest language:

John chapter one:

"The Word was with God,
He was with God in the beginning.
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father"

And also in Genesis chapter one

"Let us make man in our image"

[Ross]

The Father is Jesus Christ whom He has sent, according to the declaration of the Son in John 17:3.

Two verses later in this text Jesus declares:

"And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began."

[OneJack]

[Replying to Ross in post #52]

Let us make man in our image

Thus saith the Lord:

“It is I who made the earth
and created mankind on it.
My own hands stretched out the heavens;
I marshaled their starry hosts.“

Where now is the ‘us’ in this verse, why the pronoun ‘I’ was used, instead of ‘us?’

[OneJack]

The Father is Jesus Christ whom He has sent, according to the declaration of the Son in John 17:3.

Two verses later in this text Jesus declares:

"And now, Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began."

You acknowledge God can split Himself, don’t you? He can truly split Himself infinitely, through manifestations in any manner He wishes, but, still, God is only one.

[Ross]

[Replying to Ross in post #52]

Let us make man in our image

Thus saith the Lord:

“It is I who made the earth
and created mankind on it.
My own hands stretched out the heavens;
I marshaled their starry hosts.“

Where now is the ‘us’ in this verse, why the pronoun ‘I’ was used, instead of ‘us?’

1 "In the beginning was the Word....the Word was God.

2 The same was in the beginning with God.

3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made."

Like I said earlier, you are very close. There is ONE Almighty God, not two. But John is explaining that he is and was at creation not just the Father. Jesus pre existed from eternity, but he is and was separate from the Father. This is progressive revelation and was additional from what the Old Testament revealed fully.

Even the Hebrew word for God, Elohim is a plural word.

Genesis 1:2 reads:

"And the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters"

A further division or entity involved in creation. But they are all the ONE God

[Ross]

You acknowledge God can split Himself, don’t you? He can truly split Himself infinitely, through manifestations in any manner He wishes, but, still, God is only one.

Absolutely. Only we are not told that he split himself at some point in the infinite past. The Bible indicates that the Father, the Word and the Spirit were there from the beginning.

[OneJack]

[Replying to Ross in post #52]

Let us make man in our image

Thus saith the Lord:

“It is I who made the earth
and created mankind on it.
My own hands stretched out the heavens;
I marshaled their starry hosts.“

Where now is the ‘us’ in this verse, why the pronoun ‘I’ was used, instead of ‘us?’

1 "In the beginning was the Word....the Word was God.

2 The same was in the beginning with God.

3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made."

Like I said earlier, you are very close. There is ONE Almighty God, not two. But John is explaining that he is and was at creation not just the Father. Jesus pre existed from eternity, but he is and was separate from the Father. This is progressive revelation and was additional from what the Old Testament revealed fully.

Even the Hebrew word for God, Elohim is a plural word.

Genesis 1:2 reads:

"And the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters"

A further division or entity involved in creation. But they are all the ONE God

The appropriate word is ‘manifestation’ of the one God, who is the Almighty.

[OneJack]

You acknowledge God can split Himself, don’t you? He can truly split Himself infinitely, through manifestations in any manner He wishes, but, still, God is only one.

Absolutely. Only we are not told that he split himself at some point in the infinite past. The Bible indicates that the Father, the Word and the Spirit were there from the beginning.

Jesus is in a 24/7 watch mode for whoever will come to and call upon His name. He is the one who teaches the truth today. You'd better approach and talk to Him for the truth on all the issues we discussed, will you?

[Ross]

You acknowledge God can split Himself, don’t you? He can truly split Himself infinitely, through manifestations in any manner He wishes, but, still, God is only one.

Absolutely. Only we are not told that he split himself at some point in the infinite past. The Bible indicates that the Father, the Word and the Spirit were there from the beginning.

Jesus is in a 24/7 watch mode for whoever will come to and call upon His name. He is the one who teaches the truth today. You'd better approach and talk to Him for the truth on all the issues we discussed, will you?

You sound as though your persuasion is Pentecostal Modalism. Am I correct?