A. God created human beings, male and female, in His own image and in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, to rule over the other creatures.
26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
27 So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:26,27)
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:26,27)
Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. 6 Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.[b] 7 You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. 8 But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. 9 Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. (Colossians 3:5-10)
Thoughts: There have been all sorts of theories about the image of God. Some say this means God looks like us. Some Freudians say we create God in our image. But these are all backwards. To have an inkling of what God is like- we need not look to ourselves, but to what God has said about Himself. Our image of God is so tarnished that we can hardly see it. Some have said that we can speak with complexity, think abstractly are signs that we are made by God. But perhaps beyond these surface things- is the idea that we have a soul- a spiritual side made to love God, and go beyond ourselves and our animal instincts.
Prayer: May we treat others with kindness and ourselves with kindness because we are made by you and we have your image imprinted on us.
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