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What does it means, man was made in the Image of God?

Carry_Your_Name said:
Well that is not absolute, what is immortal to us is not immortal to God, what is not subject to the first death may be subject to the second death.
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The word immortal has a different meaning to God?
I wouldn’t think so.
It is appointed for all man once to die. For him to die a second death, he must be raised from the dead and judged unfaithful. Into the fire with him.
 
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
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Jhn 3:17
“For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
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Jhn 3:18
“He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
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Jhn 3:19
“And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
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Jhn 3:20
“For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.

Light has come into the world. But men love darkness rather than light.
Why? Because their deeds are evil. No one else’s but man’s. THEY practice evil because THEY hate light.

Get it?
 
Carry_Your_Name said:
Spirits are immortal in this world, can't be killed with any physical means, but not so in God's kingdom. Their fate was sealed long ago in Ps. 82:6-7. These are the same "sons of God" in Gen. 6:2 and Job 1:6, they are divine beings like God, and they are EVIL. They mustn't be conflated with us the adopted sons and daughters of God through Christ, you know. These are the minions who are with Satan, and they'll be cast into the Lake of Fire with Satan. Anybody who worships Satan is possessed by one of these spirits. Die "like" men indicates they were supposed to be immortal, but die they will in the end.

I said, “You are gods,
And all of you are children of the Most High.
But you shall die like men,
And fall like one of the princes.”
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I’m sure the sons of God in Gen 6 and Ps 82 refer to mortal men.
God’s angels in heaven don’t die. That means they are immortal.
Both to God’s understanding and mine.
 
It’s not good to change the meaning of words because we don’t understand. It’s better to leave the meaning as is and go from there.
 
So, getting back to the image and likeness of God in which man was formed into when taken from the ground, it’s said that into his face was breathed the breath of life. And the man formed became a living soul.
And it is the man who was formed that returns to dust. For dust he was, and to dust he returns.

The God who formed man in His image says, “Let us make man in our image”

the “us”refers to God and angels.

The idea that angels took on the nature of man to have sex with women is not true.
In the resurrection, the man is to be as the angels who don’t marry.

Need to stay the course to know truth.
 
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Gen 3:8 - And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

God is walking toward us. Let’s hide from His presence.
 
LeviR said:
The word immortal has a different meaning to God?
I wouldn’t think so.
It is appointed for all man once to die. For him to die a second death, he must be raised from the dead and judged unfaithful. Into the fire with him.
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Since spirits can die this second death, they are not immortal to God, but as a matter of fact they are immortal to us. They can be restrained, but can't be killed. What is impossible to man is possible to God, that's what I meant.
LeviR said:
I’m sure the sons of God in Gen 6 and Ps 82 refer to mortal men.
God’s angels in heaven don’t die. That means they are immortal.
Both to God’s understanding and mine.
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I'm sure they're not, those are divine beings, aka angels, hosts of heaven. They don't die - UNITL God cast them into the Lake of Fire to die. These rebels will be judged. There's no place for them in New Jerusalem. If there were mortals, why would they die "like" men? Why not just die as men? And how come are they able to stand face to face before God (Job 1:6), since no man can see God's face and live (Ex. 33:20)?

And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day. (Jude 1:6)
 
Carry_Your_Name said:
Since spirits can die this second death, they are not immortal to God, but as a matter of fact they are immortal to us. They can be restrained, but can't be killed. What is impossible to man is possible to God, that's what I meant.

I'm sure they're not, those are divine beings, aka angels, hosts of heaven. They don't die - UNITL God cast them into the Lake of Fire to die. These rebels will be judged. There's no place for them in New Jerusalem. If there were mortals, why would they die "like" men? Why not just die as men? And how come are they able to stand face to face before God (Job 1:6), since no man can see God's face and live (Ex. 33:20)?

And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day. (Jude 1:6)
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“The angels that sinned”
Since sin results in death, and Jesus said God’s angels in heaven don’t die or marry, it means they are immortal.
The “angels” that sinned were messengers.
Translating the word as angels instead of messengers gives the wrong idea.
Context determines the meaning. And since they are said to have sinned and died, it means they were mortal men.
 
LeviR said:
He is called man before he is given the breath of life.
It is man who returns to dust. It is his breath of life that returns to God who gave it.
neither his breath or his being a living soul is the man. Because animals are also living souls.
The breath is what he breathes, and alive is what he became.
When he stops breathing, he dies. And the man returns to dust.
That is the end of him.
However, God can raise the man and restore his life.
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John 3:31
He that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth (so the speech or human opinion is good for nothing): bu he that cometh from above is above all. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

1 Corinthians 15:45-47
47 The first MAN is of the earth, earthy; the second MAN is the Lord from heaven(is from a celestial /spiritual environment)
45 The first MAN Adam was made a living soul(whose breath is in his nostrils- Isaiah 2:22); the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

Genesis 2:7
And the Lord GOD formed man (animal) of the dust of the ground, ... has eyes but don't see, has ears but don't hear, has mouth, but don't speak;
Then GOD breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. GOD said by the prophet Isaiah 2:22->Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of ?

1Corinthians 2:11
What MAN knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of MAN which is in him? even so the things of GOD knoweth no man, but the Spirit of GOD. Paul Apostle wrote: Romans 8:9->if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.

What I learned by the Scriptures above quoted,we cannot be leaded or guided by the spirit of MAN, his human opinions,the MORTAL spirit good and evil of MAN, as GOD revealed to Moses in Genesis 3:1, actually a STUMBLING BLOCK, like the speech of the MAN of sin, as my Lord JESUS also clarifies in Matthew 16:22-23.

The origin of the death, or the source of the death
Genesis 2:9->9 And out of the ground (out of the dust of the earth) made the Lord GOD to grow every tree(Psalms 1:1-6) that is pleasant to the sight, and good for FOOD; the tree of life(the MAN JESUS, the bread of heaven) also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil(THE EARTHLY man, very dangerous and terrible, if is not born again from GOD). All men are under sin: Romans 3:9-16 and 21-26:
9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
13 Their throat is an open sepulchre(ORIGIN OF THE DEATH); with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: (sound only the words of death-Genesis 3:1)
14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:
16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:
17 And the way of peace have they not known:
18 There is no fear of GOD before their eyes.

21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

It's it. I'm astonished with what the Word of GOD reveals. Great mystery.
1Corinthians 15:24-26
24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to GOD, even the Father; when He shall have PUT DOWN all RULE and all AUTHORITHY and POWER.

25 For JESUS must reign, till He hath put all ENEMIES under His feet.

26 The LAST ENEMY THAT SHALL BE DESTROYED IS DEATH. ALELUIA!!!

May our Lord GOD bless us and keep us, and give us His protection
Amen
 
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Galations 3:23 kjv
23.But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.


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Hebrews 10:35-39
35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.

36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of GOD ye might receive the promise.

37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.

38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
Amen
 
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