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To: RnMomof7
God created man in his own image meaning that man has intellect, emotion and will

If we look at God's attributes, you will see that he has a body as revealed by the theophany incarnate ie. Jesus Christ.

The Lord is spirit ie. having a personal, rational and moral sense.

However, the following attributes of God should be illustrative of the gulf that separates the created from the creator

emotion
intellect
anger
self-existant (Exodus 3:14; John 8)
immutable
perfection
righteousness
justice
loving
insomniac
eternal - father of time (Isaiah 9:6)
See II Pt 1:3 See Mt 16:17 How many men can clam their love is: undeserved
unselfish
absolutely free
righteous
eternal
divine
reciprocated
loving the unlovely (see Romans 5:6)
truthfull: dependable, not misrepresented nor exgagerated

Is God's image equal to God (see Jn 5:18)?

Can God's image be called any of the following:

Jehovah
Elohim
Adonai
Son of God
Lord
prototokos
monogenes

Is he any of the following:

Omniscient
Omnipresent
Omnipotent
Immutable
self-existant in:

Holyness (see Isa 6:1-5)
love (see Jn 16:27)
truth (see Jn 14:6)
eternal (see Isa 9:6)
pre-existant (see Micah 5:2; Dt 32:7; Isa 63:9; Amos 9:11, Jn 1:1-3,15,30, 17:5; Col 1:17; Phil 2:6-11, Isa 45:23)

Does man have the following privledges:

saving faith
forgiveness of sins
recieving worship
judge men (per Jn 5:22; Acts 17:31)

Don't get too hung up on the man created according to God's image.

133 posted on 02/26/2002 9:16:48 PM PST by raygun
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To: raygun
I do not "get " your point?
143 posted on 02/27/2002 4:57:58 AM PST by RnMomof7
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