Carry_Your_Name
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We're been taught all the time in motivational sermons that we're made in the image of God, in latin, "Imago Dei", I understand its significance, as it points us to our one and only Creator, and it's especially relevant in this corrupt era where up is down and down is up, it reminds us of our original identity and affirms that there're only male and female. However, this "Imago Dei" alone is deceptive, because it's only half truth, it has been frequently exploited to boost pride and ego, it has even become a selling point for the body positivity movement by lots of influencers with a Christian label, that everyone is "fearfully and wonderfully made" in the image of God, no matter what size you are. I heard that yesterday in a podcast, it was outrageous, and it inspired me to write this thread.
Indeed, Adam and Eve were directly made in the image of God, but from Seth and there on, all mankind are made in the image of Adam. In other words, while Adam was a copy, Seth was a copy of a copy, which was no longer the original, the difference was SIN. The original image of God was tainted by sin, we're indirectly made in the image of a sinner. This might sound harsh, even offensive, yet it's the other half.
This other half comes from Gen. 5:3, you've probably have never noticed, yet it's key to understand who we are, who Christ is and why we need salvation from Christ. The garden of Eden was the intersection of heaven and earth, since Adam was banished, the connection between man and God was severed, as a result, mankind deviated further and further away from God, and sin piled up like entropy, generation upon generation. According to the genealogy in Lk. 3, when it came to Jesus's generation, the 76th, it had become a "faithless and perverse generation" (Matt. 17:17). And this is not just talking in a moral sense, but also in biological sense. Think about how sick we have become of, both mentally and physiologically, compared to the boomers and the silent generation. We're not evolving, but DEvolving. This is confirmed in epigenetic research, some of our lifestyle choices can be embedded into our genome and passed down to the next generation.
This is the book of the genealogy of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God. He created them male and female, and blessed them and called them Mankind in the day they were created. And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth. (Gen. 5:1-3)
Knowing our sinful nature points us to Christ, who was born of the Holy Spirit, not Mary's egg and Joseph's sperm, and thus the incarnate of God, directly manifested in the Father's image, not indirectly in Adam's image. Like the first Adam, the prototype, He was born in the original, pristine, sinless state, therefore he was called the Second or Last Adam, that sets Him apart from Mary, Joseph, James and all other human beings who have inherited Adam's sin nature; and UNLIKE the first Adam, He resisted the devil, he retained his sinless state till he was crucified. We're taught to conform to image of Christ (Rom. 8:29), justified by His blood, and at the resurrection we will be divested of the sin nature we inherited from Adam and remade in glorified bodies. If you don't conform in the image of Christ, you know what the alternative is? The image of the Beast (Rev. 13:14-15), and again, not just in a moral sense, but also in biological sense, known as transhumanism, I assume you guys are no stranger to that, today's transgender movement is just a preview. It's the same lie in the garden - "you shall be like God, knowing good and evil," Gen. 3:5.
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned— For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come. (Rom. 5:12-14)
Indeed, Adam and Eve were directly made in the image of God, but from Seth and there on, all mankind are made in the image of Adam. In other words, while Adam was a copy, Seth was a copy of a copy, which was no longer the original, the difference was SIN. The original image of God was tainted by sin, we're indirectly made in the image of a sinner. This might sound harsh, even offensive, yet it's the other half.
This other half comes from Gen. 5:3, you've probably have never noticed, yet it's key to understand who we are, who Christ is and why we need salvation from Christ. The garden of Eden was the intersection of heaven and earth, since Adam was banished, the connection between man and God was severed, as a result, mankind deviated further and further away from God, and sin piled up like entropy, generation upon generation. According to the genealogy in Lk. 3, when it came to Jesus's generation, the 76th, it had become a "faithless and perverse generation" (Matt. 17:17). And this is not just talking in a moral sense, but also in biological sense. Think about how sick we have become of, both mentally and physiologically, compared to the boomers and the silent generation. We're not evolving, but DEvolving. This is confirmed in epigenetic research, some of our lifestyle choices can be embedded into our genome and passed down to the next generation.
This is the book of the genealogy of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God. He created them male and female, and blessed them and called them Mankind in the day they were created. And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth. (Gen. 5:1-3)
Knowing our sinful nature points us to Christ, who was born of the Holy Spirit, not Mary's egg and Joseph's sperm, and thus the incarnate of God, directly manifested in the Father's image, not indirectly in Adam's image. Like the first Adam, the prototype, He was born in the original, pristine, sinless state, therefore he was called the Second or Last Adam, that sets Him apart from Mary, Joseph, James and all other human beings who have inherited Adam's sin nature; and UNLIKE the first Adam, He resisted the devil, he retained his sinless state till he was crucified. We're taught to conform to image of Christ (Rom. 8:29), justified by His blood, and at the resurrection we will be divested of the sin nature we inherited from Adam and remade in glorified bodies. If you don't conform in the image of Christ, you know what the alternative is? The image of the Beast (Rev. 13:14-15), and again, not just in a moral sense, but also in biological sense, known as transhumanism, I assume you guys are no stranger to that, today's transgender movement is just a preview. It's the same lie in the garden - "you shall be like God, knowing good and evil," Gen. 3:5.
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned— For until the law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come. (Rom. 5:12-14)
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