Image of God, Fractured Soul
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Created in the image of God
Created in the image of God
Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind”; and it was so.
God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good.
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;
and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food”; and it was so.
God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Lexham Analytical Lexicon of the Hebrew Bible (צֶ֫לֶם 1)
צֶ֫לֶם 1ṣelem 1, n.c., statue, inscribed column; idol; image, figure, replica, likeness. 15×Roots: צלם 1; צֶ֫לֶם 1. Cognates: צַלְמוֹן 1; צַלְמוֹן 1Bible Senses:form n., the visual appearance of something or someone: Ge 1:26–27; 5:3; 9:6; Eze 7:20; 16:17; 23:14 (8×)model (representation) n., a physical representation of something regardless of the material it is made from: Nu 33:52; 1 Sa 6:5, 11; 2 Ch 23:17 (5×)idol n., a pagan and material effigy that is worshiped as a representation or in lieu of a deity: 2 Ki 11:18; Am 5:26
What is meant by in the “image of God?”
What is meant by in the “image of God?”
Genesis 1:26 (LHB)
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֔ים נַֽעֲשֶׂ֥ה אָדָ֛ם בְּצַלְמֵ֖נוּ כִּדְמוּתֵ֑נוּ וְיִרְדּוּ֩ בִדְגַ֨ת הַיָּ֜ם וּבְע֣וֹף הַשָּׁמַ֗יִם וּבַבְּהֵמָה֙ וּבְכָל־הָאָ֔רֶץ וּבְכָל־הָרֶ֖מֶשׂ הָֽרֹמֵ֥שׂ עַל־הָאָֽרֶץ׃
Genesis 1:26 (NASB95)
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
Lexham Analytical Lexicon of the Hebrew Bible (צֶ֫לֶם 1)
צֶ֫לֶם 1ṣelem 1, n.c., statue, inscribed column; idol; image, figure, replica, likeness. 15×Roots: צלם 1; צֶ֫לֶם 1. Cognates: צַלְמוֹן 1; צַלְמוֹן 1Bible Senses:form n., the visual appearance of something or someone: Ge 1:26–27; 5:3; 9:6; Eze 7:20; 16:17; 23:14 (8×)model (representation) n., a physical representation of something regardless of the material it is made from: Nu 33:52; 1 Sa 6:5, 11; 2 Ch 23:17 (5×)idol n., a pagan and material effigy that is worshiped as a representation or in lieu of a deity: 2 Ki 11:18; Am 5:26
Image, statue, figure, replica, idol, likeness...
Image, statue, figure, replica, idol, likeness...
But then came the fall, the ruined soul...
But then came the fall, the ruined soul...
Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?”
Serpent, Satan or both?
Serpent, Satan or both?
So the great dragon was thrown out—the ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, the one who deceives the whole world. He was thrown to earth, and his angels with him.
He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for 1,000 years.
The woman said to the serpent, “From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat;
but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will die.’ ”
The serpent said to the woman, “You surely will not die!
“For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.
The temptation, and the fall - to be God. To serve one’s desires
The temptation, and the fall - to be God. To serve one’s desires
“As unreasonable as it seems, there is a reason, and it is this. A curious thing happens to us when we get a taste of God. It happened first in Eden and it keeps happening. The experience of God - the ecstasy, the wholeness of it - is accompanied by a temptation to reproduce the experience as God.” —Eugene Peterson, Under the Unpredictable Plant
Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings.
They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
Fleeing from God, won’t be the last time.
Fleeing from God, won’t be the last time.
Jonah 1:3 (ESV)
But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa and found a ship going to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the Lord.
Then the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”
He said, “I heard the sound of You in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.”
And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”
The man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me from the tree, and I ate.”
Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” And the woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
The Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, Cursed are you more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you will go, And dust you will eat All the days of your life;
And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel.”
To the woman He said, “I will greatly multiply Your pain in childbirth, In pain you will bring forth children; Yet your desire will be for your husband, And he will rule over you.”
Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’; Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you will eat of it All the days of your life.
“Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; And you will eat the plants of the field;
By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return.”
Now the man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.
The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.
Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”—
therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to cultivate the ground from which he was taken.
So He drove the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life.
Made in the image of God, but without God’s character.
Made in the image of God, but without God’s character.
Jars of Clay
Jars of Clay
We now have this light shining in our hearts, but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great treasure. This makes it clear that our great power is from God, not from ourselves.
We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair.
We are hunted down, but never abandoned by God. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed.
Through suffering, our bodies continue to share in the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be seen in our bodies.
Yes, we live under constant danger of death because we serve Jesus, so that the life of Jesus will be evident in our dying bodies.
So we live in the face of death, but this has resulted in eternal life for you.
But we continue to preach because we have the same kind of faith the psalmist had when he said, “I believed in God, so I spoke.”
We know that God, who raised the Lord Jesus, will also raise us with Jesus and present us to himself together with you.
All of this is for your benefit. And as God’s grace reaches more and more people, there will be great thanksgiving, and God will receive more and more glory.