When
one reasons that man is made in the image of God and not the woman, the consistencies
that follow due to the existence and implications of the existence God of the Bible
being deemed rational and logical, still depicts a just and true consistent arbiter
in the application Genesis 9:6 even
when the the victim is a woman who is not reconciled to God. In this particular occurrence,
the physical body of the woman seems it must be of less divine symbolic pertinence
to God then that of even an unreconciled man in the form of the Image of God. One
would reason that God still manages to demonstrate his Holy Nature, to make such gender
distinctions that he does justly, and God still allows woman inherit value and human
dignity in her body which is connected to creation, but it seems he would attribute
even more value to women who are reconciled to God through the atonement of Jesus
Christ who take on the image of the last Adam, a spiritual image rather than a physical
image. Also, further proof that God values women as one might deduce from an excerpt
of Isaiah, is shownpassage Isaiah
56:5 where God acknowledges that he has daughters,
and that they have pertinent value to him.
When one falsely reasons that both man and woman were created in God's image,
that both do bear his image in their humanity, then yes, though such a belief is
false and logically impossible, God acts justly in recompensing homicide in
Genesis 9:6 on God's own terms, but there is a loss
of coherence in the rest of the Holy Bible. The numerous instances alluded to in
the exposition of this entire overall argument based largely from the Bible
becomes illogical, and seemingly arbitrary. The perception of God and his Holy
Bible is tarnished. Herein, it is shown that man is according to the exact
wording of Genesis created in the image of God by God, and in his anatomical
humanity does bear that image, and the woman was not created in God's image by
God. She does not posses God the Father's image in her human appearance just as
the Apostle Paul asserts in 1 Corinthians 11:7-9 roughly two thousand years ago.
It
is in fact as has been alluded to at the very beginning of this exposition that one
cannot claim coherence in believing both that the Holy Bible is the infallible word
of God and simultaneously that both men in Adam and women in Eve were created in God's
image and are image bearer's of God in their humanity without introducing conflicting
elements within the Bible. Thereby, one is conceptually legitimatizes the prior assertion
of Biblical infallibility. Essentially, it is to present God's existence in himself
and his Holy Bible as make believe, instead of as a fact of reality.
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