So in what way is man made in the image of God? Notice our
verse reveals the plurality of God – “Let
Us – Our image.”
Indeed, the New Testament clearly reveals - that the true
and living God, is God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. Three
in One and One in Three; our Triune God!
Man is also three in one and one in three; for we are
composed of spirit, soul and body.
2 Corinthians 4:4, tells us that, “...Christ...is the image of God...”
Matthew 16:13, 16,
17,” (13) When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked
His disciples, saying, ’Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am’?...(16)Simon
Peter answered and said, ‘You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.’
(17)Jesus answered and said to Him, ‘Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for
flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven’.”
Hebrews 1:2, 3, “(2)
[God] has in these last days spoken
to us by His Son, whom He appointed Heir of all things, through whom also He
made the worlds; (3) who being the brightness of His glory and the express image
of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had
by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high.”
Notice Christ is not just a likeness, but the express, or exact,
image of God; for He is God the Son!
The risen and glorified man, Jesus Christ is both Lord and
God.
Christ as man is made in the image of God. He is truly man.
Christ as the Son is truly God. So He is truly man and truly God!
Do you want to know God? God is revealed in Jesus Christ! John
10:30, states “I and My Father are
one.”
All we need to know about God is revealed in and through Jesus
Christ; for He is God the Son.
Philippians 2:5-11 tell us, “(5)...Christ Jesus: (6) Who, being in the form of God, thought it not
robbery to be equal with God: (7) But made Himself of no reputation, and took
upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: (8) And
being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto
death, even the death of the cross. (9) Wherefore God also hath highly exalted
Him, and given Him a name which is above every name; (10) That at the name of
Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and
things under the earth; (11) And that every tongue should confess that Jesus
Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” (KJV)
Yes indeed, Christ is the exact image and true
representation of God.
Jon Peasey
Biblical Perspectives blog
www.jon-peasey.blogspot.com
[All Scriptures quoted are from the New King James version,
except where noted]
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