In the image of God

Monday, March 15, 2010: Genesis 1:26–27

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

What are the singular-plurals in this passage? God is referred to as Us and then as His; man is created singular and created male and female, plural.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010: Romans 8:29

For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.

When are those who believe in Christ to be conformed to His Son’s image? In the Omniscience of God this has been God’s plan for believers from eternity past to eternity future.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010: 1 Corinthians 15:49

And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man.

Is this a way of explaining being born again? Yes, it is. Our first birth is with bodies of dust; our second birth is spiritual.

Thursday, March 18, 2010: 2 Corinthians 3:18

But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.

When does the transformation into His image take place? It takes place in the present when we ‘see’ His face in God’s word and are slowly changed to reflect Christ.

Friday, March 19, 2010: Colossians 3:10

and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him,

What knowledge renews us into His image? Doing what we are doing: reading the Bible.