6.13.2021 And Now Your Questions About Heaven Creature: Imago & Immortality 1

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Quick Scriptural Survey

Genesis 1:26–28 ESV
26 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.” 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Genesis 5:1–3 ESV
1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. 2 Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created. 3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
Romans 8:29 ESV
29 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.
Ephesians 4:22–24 ESV
22 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
Colossians 3:9–11 ESV
9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. 11 Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.

Preliminary Observations

Unique Place in Creation

Last in order

First in precedence.

Unique Purpose in Creation

Relationship

With God.

Marriage

Broader human community.

Dominion

Unique Perspective in Creation.

Historical Contingency

Eternal horizon. (otherness)

Ecclesiastes 3:11 ESV
11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

Conclusions

The fall defaces but does not destroy the image.

Christ's cross primarily undoes the defacement of the Image at a Cosmic level…We as individuals choose to participate or not in this cosmic redemption.

When we choose to participate in the cosmic redemption the full image is restored in us…in that We are in Christ Jesus.

To understand the nature of our redeemed immortality (heavenly state) we have to understand redemption as this cosmic process of restoring man(kind) to its role as Image Bearer in Creation.

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