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May 3, 2024 · This reflection of his divine image in us has been blemished yet not obliterated. James, the half brother of Jesus, affirmed this truth when he wrote that men are “made in God’s likeness” (James 3:9). Furthermore, through sanctification, God is renewing an image that as yet is blemished and broken. We have taken off the “old self with ...
- Likeness and The New Consensus on “Image”
- Christ: from True Likeness to True Image
- Christ and The Story of Humanity
- Christ and The Vindication of Image
- Image and The Plan of God
One reason why “image” should be distinguished from “likeness” is because, as most exegetes now believe, “image of God” has to do with representation. In Genesis 1, it means that humans are symbols of God. It means they represent God and to his world like ambassadors or viceroys (see Jensen). This means that the “likeness” between God and humans is...
A more profound reason for distinguishing image and likeness as concepts is that these two ideas correspond to two aspects of Christ’s identity. The New Testament presents Christ in two registers: First, Jesus is God’s eternal Son, stamp, radiance, Word, image, wisdom and form (Heb 1:1-3; John 1:1; Col 1:15; Col 2:3; Phil 2:6). His identity here co...
Our story – the human story – took a very different path. Although we were made in God’s image to rule over his creation we failed to represent him or obey his words. Under the tutelage of Satan we turned God-likeness into an idol (Gen 3:5) – and came to think of ourselves as rivals to God. These two failures still dog us at every turn. They have p...
Christ also does something for God. In Hebrews 2:10 we read that ” it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, [i.e. God] in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering.” Why should it be fitting for God that Jesus should be perfected through suffering? And what does “perfect”...
The Church Fathers made a great deal of the incarnation, and the fact that it is Christ the eternal Image who perfects humans as images of God. They were right to get excited about that. But the New Testament reminds us that the greatest work of the eternal Image is his work on the cross. Here it is that he both reveals what humanity should be and ...
Jan 4, 2022 · The image of God (Latin, imago dei) refers to the immaterial part of humanity. It sets human beings apart from the animal world, fits them for the dominion God intended them to have over the earth (Genesis 1:28), and enables them to commune with their Maker. It is a likeness mentally, morally, and socially.
Jun 15, 2023 · Significantly, this passage links God's original creation of humans in his likeness with the subsequent human procreation of children in Adam's image and likeness. Following the Genesis narrative further, after the flood of Noah, Genesis 9:6 indicates that due to the image of God, capital punishment is required in cases of murder. To murder a ...
- David L. Turner
Apr 29, 2024 · God has designed all of humanity together to reveal his incredible image and likeness. With all her exquisite diversity, humanity as a whole, as a collective, displays God’s image. The Ultimate Imago. For Christians, “God created human beings in his image and likeness” is a foundational claim of our faith.
- Aubrey Sampson
Apr 5, 2017 · As Paul says, sinful man “exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things” (Romans 1:23). Though man is made in God’s image, he has turned from God to false images, even images of man himself. This is a sad attempt to worship a sullied image.
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2 It is in Christ, "the image of the invisible God," 3 that man has been created "in the image and likeness" of the Creator. It is in Christ, Redeemer and Savior, that the divine image, disfigured in man by the first sin, has been restored to its original beauty and ennobled by the grace of God. 4. 1702 The divine image is present in every man.
