God Is The Perfect Image Of God

What does it mean to be created in the image of God? This question has haunted humanity for thousands of years. If we were created in His image then how exactly did we fall. The first section of the text speaks to this very question by conducting an analysis of the creation account in the book of Genesis. The text begins by noting that the creation of man was intentional and specific. Man was not an afterthought or accident. In face scripture states that man was “very good.” Scripture also notes that the creation of man was not an evolutionary event, given that this theory would deny the formation of man from the dust and the breath of life that was given by God specifically for man.

“God is the sole deity worshipped in the monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam” (García, 2015). According to the Christian worldview, God is one being who exists eternally as three persons: the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ, who is fully man and fully God), and the Holy Spirit (Merrick 2014). God is the sovereign creator of all that there is. “Because God created and sustains all things, He alone is worthy of worship and praise” (Scripture and biblical passage support the history of the creation of the universe, in accordance to the Christian worldview. “In the beginning God created the Heavens and the earth” and all living things, including humans (Genesis 1:1). Mankind is His highest creation perfected in Him (“Lecture 2,” 2015). We as humans were made in the image of God, so that we may bear the attributes He has. God is indescribable, but at the same time

From who man's image was created, who is not a man nor an object, but something greater. This being of such greatness goes by the name Lord God. God created existence itself, including space and any life that inhibits it. Only God should have the power to give life, but in Frankenstein a scientist by the name of Victor Frankenstein finds a way to reanimate dead flesh. And Like God, he made his creation from his own image. His intentions were supposedly for improvement humankind, but he decided to play God, which according to the Bible no man should.

God is the creator of our world. He created humans, animals, plants and this universe. He is the father of everyone. He is the father of sun and moon who wakes them up everyday.

He created us perfectly with His likeness but then I believe that it is us who get to pick what we wanted to become. It is like Lucifer in catholic teachings.

We can see this through the “word of God thus this acted consistently in assuming a body and using a human instrument to vitalize the body” (Athanasius 36). We can also see Jesus in the beginning of time as a human being our light to guide us on our ways, being out creation, and most off all bringing creation into the world. This is seeing by “in the beginning, nothing as yet existed at all, all that was needed, therefore, in order to bring all things into being, was that his will id do so should be made signified” (Athanasius 35) thought his words and actions.

God created man in his own image. The original image of God that was implemented on mankind was the attributes righteousness and integrity. This original image differentiates from the interpretation of the image of God given by the historical figure in church history, John Calvin, which was powerful and influential. He stated that the image of God “…extends to the whole excellence by which man’s nature towers over all kinds of living creatures…. And although the primary seat of the divine image was in the mind or heart, or in the soul and its powers, yet there was no part of man, not even the body itself, in which some sparks did not glow.” From the statement that he made, it is clear to see that he believed that mankind was affected by the

The first instance of God’s relationship with human beings comes with the creation of Adam: “So God created humankind in his image, in the

In general we are all created in the image of God (Genesis 1:26-27, 5:1, 9:6; 1 Corinthians 11:7; James 3:9) but that does not fully answer

Throughout God creates things in certain order for a purpose and it is all well thought out and formed. These accounts of sin and punishment, show how God means what He says and says what He means. Which creates fear of God, meaning respect or reverence to Him. To be “made in the image of God”, to me, means that God created humanity in the likeness of His Son. Jesus, in the trinity, is the Son of God. This saying essentially that Jesus was part man, part God. Not as much the physical aspect of Jesus, but the emotional traits and soul comparisons that humanity was given to portray God or Jesus. God in these accounts is portrayed as a speaking deity and as a physical being on earth. More times than not, God’s wrath by punishment is shown after humanity does not obey Him. Nature throughout these accounts are shown as precious and beautiful to God. As God created the Garden of Eden, it was perfect and bared a great amount of fruit. When humanity came along and sin was committed, He struck them out of the Garden so that sin could not dwell there. The relationship between male and female, I feel like, was almost child-like until

“Then God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” The words found in this verse have been defined in many different ways throughout history. The two most common views for the image are the substantive view and the functional view. These two views have strengths, but their weaknesses keep them from being a satisfying answer for the image. The first view, substantive, has been the primary view throughout the history of Christian thought. This view can be defined as a characteristic in the make up of human beings. “More common substantive views of the image of God isolate it in terms of some psychological or spiritual quality in human nature, especially reason.” Often the people that hold to the substantive view claim the image

Who is God? Though there are many religions throughout the world and many gods are worshipped,but evidence points to one divine designer, a perfect God. God not only created all things that are in existence today, but He also sustains them. God existed before anything was created, but He realized the world needed something in it so He created man. Before anything God knew all that was going to happen, since He is omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent. God is a part of the trinity. His creativeness, power, intelligence, holiness, infinite nature, wisdom, are uncomprehend able by man because man is limited in a finite, sinful, weak human body. As creator, God is the father of mankind. He created man to glorify Himself, and have perfect fellowship forever.

However, apparently we are imperfect beings of problems and sinfulness. Despite the perfection that God possesses and can provide for His own creation, this must be the only thing He must have failed to perfect. But, yet, this imperfection must be deduced to be intentional in nature, as no god, who is made of perfection, can create an imperfection as that would make him no god.

On the sixth day, God created the creatures on land. “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” (Gen. 1:26, NIV). God created man in His own image and likeness. He blessed His creation for it was good. Humanity was designed to be good.

In Old Testament, Genesis is considered as history of the earth and human creation. Only from very first few chapters, we can notice that “God [with the power of His voice] created the heavens and the earth” (Gen 1:1). He created everything on six literal days, including universe, nature, night, day, animal, and human beings. God showed us how to conduct our weeks as working six days per week, but then He gave us one day, the seventh day, to rest. In other words, after productively working on six successive days, we should spend Sunday to go to church, to hang out with our beloved ones and to glorify the Great I Am. Beyond that, it is such a bless that “God created man in his own image” (Gen 1:27), which also means that He is not distant from His creation. Therefore, we should believe that we inherit some virtues from the Lord God, and He always gets involved in human lives. Applying those virtues in behaviors will help us grow good relationships with other people. Undoubtedly, relationships are life’s biggest joys and biggest sorrows. There are various types of relationships including a superior one, the relationship with God. The very first relationship mentioned in the Bible was the marriage of Adam and Eve. They first lived happily together in the garden until the sin came. However, when God asked, neither of them admitted it. Another broken relationship mentioned in the Bible was between Cain and Abel, the two