Webers_Home said:
The Hebrew word for "image" is tselem (tseh'-lem) which doesn't necessarily
indicate a spitting image; it just simply means shade; viz: a shadow and/or a
phantom. It's a very common word in the Old Testament and often translated
by the English word "idol".
The word for "likeness" is demuwth (dem-ooth') and just simply means a
resemblance. In other words; there are things about God that Man and God
have in common: not appearance-wise, but personality-wise; e.g. creativity,
planning, and an appreciation for things like order and beauty.
But one thing that God didn't give Adam when He created Man was an
intuitive sense right and wrong. That sense came later when Adam tasted
the forbidden fruit. Only trouble is: Man's intuitive sense of right and wrong
isn't divine; it's humanistic; viz: it's a natural sense rather than a God-given
sense. Hence; Adam became his own God; just as the Serpent predicted.
†. Gen 3:5 . . For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be
opened, and you will be like God: knowing good and evil.
But what the Serpent held back from Eve is that a natural sense of right and
wrong doesn't always agree with a God-given sense; thus Man and God would
be at variance with each other, vying over whose judgment is correct and
whose is nonsense. Man, of course, in his conceit, is convinced that his own
judgment is intelligent and God's is moronic.
†. Rom 8:7-8 . .The carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject
to the law of God, nor indeed can be. So then, those who are in the flesh
cannot please God.
†. 1Cor 2:14 . . The natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of
God, for they are absurd to him; nor can he know them, because they are
spiritually discerned.
According to Gen 2:7 and Gen 2:21-23, Adam wasn't created a spirit being;
he was created a mortal being; in point of fact: a being of flesh and bone.
Buen Camino
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Did you ever notice WHICH tree Eve thought was the forbidden tree? She didn't name a tree... she just said the tree in the MIDST of the garden we are not to eat of. The serpent did not correct Eve, but let her be deceived. The tree in the Midst of the garden was the tree of life... NOT the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that was also in THE GARDEN.. but not in the middle of the garden. The serpent tested her to see if she knew which tree was the forbidden one and she failed the test and so did Adam when he didn't even recognize the fruit and just ate to please his wife.
Gen 3:3
3
But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
KJV
When Jesus was resurrected in his incorruptible body, did he not have flesh and bones?
Luke 24:37-39
37 But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen
a spirit.
38 And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?
39
Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
KJV
Adam had God's Spirit for he was created in God's image.Only one with an unclean spirit is not of God. Just as we are being born again by the Spirit of God since Jesus paid the debt owed to the Father to redeem us so that we could once again eat from the tree of life which is the Word of life being Christ and the Spirit of life to be restored, for Jesus is the Last Adam and if we are in him we WILL no longer be led of our carnal fallen nature, but are daily carrying our cross to be raised up with Christ in the Spirit in newness of life! But we are not God the Father, but in His image meaning His attributes. But God has given us dominion of the earth to be as God on His behalf as children of the Most High.
John 10:33-35
33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and
because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.
34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law,
I said, Ye are gods?
35
If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
KJV
John 5:18
18 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath,
but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
KJV
Phil 2:5-7
5
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
KJV
John 5:24
24 Verily, verily, I say unto you,
He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me,
hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
KJV
Rom 6:4-7
4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death:
that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed,
that henceforth we should not serve sin.
7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
KJV
John 6:63
63 It is
the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing:
the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
KJV
