11/8/2023 0 Comments Genesis 1 27![]() Some atheistical persons have suggested the contrary our countryman Hobbes Annal. And that they were all written by Moses is generally believed by Jews and Christians. It is called the "first" book of Moses, because there are four more that follow the name the Jewish Rabbins give to the whole is hrwt yvmwx hvmx, "the five fifths of the law", to which the Greek word "pentateuch" answers by which we commonly call these books, they being but one volume, consisting of five parts, of which this is the first. In the Syriac and Arabic versions, the title of this book is "The Book of the Creation", because it begins with an account of the creation of all things and is such an account, and so good an one, as is not to be met with anywhere else: the Greek version calls it Genesis, and so we and other versions from thence and that because it treats of the generation of all things, of the heavens, and the earth, and all that are in them, and of the genealogy of men: it treats of the first men, of the patriarchs before the flood, and after it to the times of Joseph. And Jesus is the answer.This book, in the Hebrew copies of the Bible, and by the Jewish writers, is generally called Bereshith, which signifies "in the beginning", being the first word of it as the other four books of Moses are also called from their initial words. Therefore, since we know that we were created in the image of God, our sin and corruption begs for an answer. He comes by faith, he forgives, he cleanses, and he begins a reclamation project called sanctification that will end in the glory that God intended for human beings in the first place. God created us in his image, but we have marred it almost beyond recognition, and Jesus is the answer. Put on the new nature created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.” ( Ephesians 2:8–10 4:24) ![]() For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works. You forfeit your life if you murder a human being (see James 3:9).īut are we the image God made us to be? Is not the image marred sometimes almost beyond recognition? Do you feel that you are like God in the way you should be? So, here again, the belief that we were created in God’s image begs for a completion - in this case, a redemption, a transformation, a kind of re-creation.Īnd that is exactly what Christianity brings:īy grace are you saved through faith and this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God - not of works, lest any man should boast. They may not be killed like mice and mosquitoes. We know this because in Genesis 9:6 God said to Noah, “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed for God made man in his own image.” In other words, even in a world where sin abounds (with the likes of murder), human beings are still in the image of God. Yes, we are like God, even sinful and unbelieving there is a likeness. We are human beings in the image of God, we alone and no other animal.īut what a mess we have made of this awesome dignity. ![]() His purpose in making us must have something wonderful to do with the fact that we are not frogs, or lizards, or birds, or even monkeys. Surely this must have something to do with why we are here.
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