“exact similitude” — I remember reading a translator’s rendition of the words in Genesis.
I have been googling this topic. It amazes me.
Expositors bend over backwards to explain how and why that passage that says that Adam was made in the image and likeness of God does not mean that Adam was made in the image and likeness of God.
Luke calls Adam the son of God.
Why would Moses request to see God in His glory, and God would tell him that he could not see His face, but he could see his back parts, if He has no face and no back parts? It truly amazes me.
One of the things I noticed is that these people ignore or don’t know that the God of the Old Testament is the pre-incarnate Jesus. Jesus said He came to reveal the Father in the gospel of John. We have to assume that if Jesus came to reveal the Father, no one knew anything about Him. The Pharisees were rankled to no end when Jesus called God His Father.
And then, there is this little gem:
Deuteronomy 23:12-13
Why would God even bother with that if he has no body parts, as I have been reading in narratives by expositors, as He walked through the camp, invisible to humans.
Why would Jesus say that if you have seen Him, you have seen the Father?
God is invisible, but from the reference point of a human, as the context sometimes states.
In the transfiguration, Jesus was not in a physical, material body, but He was in a body.
Jesus prayed to the Father,just before his crucifixion, to restore Him to His original glory. In Revelation, that glory is described in detail.
Can you post this verse?
And a wee bit later the BOOK says, "And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat [a son] in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:"
Genesis 5:3 KJV