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Apr 28, 2021 · “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them” (Genesis 1:27). God created Adam from the dust of the ground by breathing life into him. So he literally carried the “breath of God” inside of him. We were given physical bodies, but the Lord also gave us spirits, the way He ...
Jan 30, 2024 · The short answer to the question “why did God create us?” is “for His pleasure.”. Revelation 4:11 says, “You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.”. Colossians 1:16 reiterates the point: “All things were created by ...
Dec 12, 2022 · This verse reveals another purpose that God has given man: dominion over the earth (Genesis 1:28–29). Again, though, this can only be properly fulfilled through a right relationship with God. The more we get to know our Creator and the more we love Him (Matthew 22:37–38), the better we understand who we are and what our purpose is.
- Isaiah 43:7 ESV / 473 helpful votes. Everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”
- Genesis 1:26 ESV / 372 helpful votes. Then 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 birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
- Isaiah 43:21 ESV / 271 helpful votes. The people whom I formed for myself that they might declare my praise.
- Genesis 1:27 ESV / 211 helpful votes. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
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First and fundamentally, to image God means in our most human selves, we are spreaders. In his foreword to Sam Crabtree’s book Practicing Affirmation, Piper writes: “The point of being created in the image of God is that human beings are destined to display God. That’s what images do. And the point of being redeemed by Jesus, and renewed after the ...
Piper illuminates his point with a metaphor of marble in a few paragraphs published in the book A Holy Ambition(2011). There Piper says: We are made in the likeness of God to exhibit his presence on earth. From here there’s one more puzzle piece to bring into the discussion.
Back in APJ episode #153, Piper again picked up the point about statues, asking, “What would it mean if you created seven billion statues of yourself and put them all over the world? It would mean you would want people to notice you.” Then he transitions from marble to mirrors, to explain how we reflect God:
Putting all these pieces together we can see one precious implication for why God created us. We are spreaders of God’s glory. To be made in God’s image means, at a foundational level, we were created to show the world how precious and deeply satisfying God is. If people look at our lives and see only self-absorption, they get the light-sucking sid...
Jan 8, 2024 · The Biblical Basis for Human Creation. At the heart of the Biblical narrative is the notion that God created humans for a distinct purpose. In Genesis 1:26-27, we learn that mankind was made 'in the image of God,' a phrase that underscores our unique capacity for a personal relationship with the Divine. This relationship is further explicated ...
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Stemming from the fact that God made man in His image is a second purpose: 2. God created people to rule over creation. “Let them rule” (1:26) is the consequence of “Let Us make man in Our image.”. God gave the right of dominion over all living things to man.
