Ezekiel 1:26 “And
above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the
appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the thro
Mathew
11:25 “At that time Jesus answered and said, “I
thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, ... ”
Mathew 11:25 to
pick a very clear example, very clearly illustrates
that Jesus is unmistakably speaking to God in the first person as a Father and thereby
also as a masculine being. If God's image were Feminine would Jesus be addressing
God as “O Father”? The induction is self evident. It is seemingly impossible fathoming
within the realm of reason that Jesus Christ believed that God in the First Person
possessed a Feminine image to go along with his Paternal Masculine Nature and Title.
To concisely close out this line of reasoning
as has already been shown, that it is the case that only one or the other is true,
that God posses either A.) a Masculine Image or B.) a Feminine Image, and since it
has been demonstrated by the inerrant Holy Bible that God posses an eternal unchanging
Masculine Image, one can conclude that God does not posses a Feminine Image without
further argument. Therefore, God' Image is the Masculine Image of Man given to Man
in Adam, and to Man alone in Adam through inheritance.
Now if one will still maintain that Woman
in Eve was made in the image of God, one has to extrapolate how a flawless and perfect
Holy God creates her in his Masculine Image and likeness as the Feminine being that
she is noting that God and his divine works are not arbitrary and neither is the Holy
Bible.
What has been seen so far that their has
been an attempt to assert that Woman in Eve was made in God's Image and that all woman
are made in God's image based upon Genesis 1:27. However,
it has already been pointed out in prior argument that the
verse, Genesis
1:27, literally
infers itself as it reads. One.), God originally created the man, the male gender,
in the appearance of his physical manifestation, God's image, and the pronouncement
is repeated twice for emphasis. “So
God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him;” Two.),
God originally created the human race to be or to exist in creation in the form of
2 genders, male and female. “male
and female created he them.”
Genesis 1:27 - “So
God created man in his own
image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”
Though I have
not yet seen it enacted, I suppose one might try to claim that Genesis
5:1-2 affirms
that woman was made in God's Image by God.
Genesis 5:1-2
- “This
is the book of the generations of Adam. In the
day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; Male and female created
he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.”
Herein,
nothing new has been added to Genesis
1:27 assuage
that Woman is also created in the Image of God. There is still the same two logically
independent statements though not unrelated in creationism as is maintained in Genesis
1:27.
What has been added is that originally God blessed humanity in Adam as is stated in
the Genesis
1:26
whereby Man is blessed to have dominion over all the earth as
also is seen by Genesis
5:2 “...and
blessed them,...”.
Also, that humanity would be defined through inheritance (brokenness, inequity, sickness,
and death through and as a consequence of original sin included as God and God's design
is not arbitrary) and named through the first man Adam as the race of Man, humanity
and mankind, as seen by Genesis
5:2 “... and
called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.”.
Again, the Apostle
Paul shows himself to be in agreement with this understanding of
Genesis
5:1-2 as
his reasoning asserts as much in inheritance of the first man Adam and original sin
in 1
Corinthians 15:45-49.
1
Corinthians 15:49 - “And
so it is written, The first man Adam
was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was
not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which
is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from
heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly,
such are they Also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy,
we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.”
What does help
in Genesis Chapter 5 is that the Bible gives further indication of how the image
of God was originally to be abstracted in human inheritance.
Genesis 5:3 “And
Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after
his image; and called his name Seth:”
Here
the Bible shows a particular instance near the beginning of mankind in which the image
of God is received through birth via means of inheritance from fathers to their sons
as Seth was begotten of Adam and was thereby made in the image of Adam through whom
he inherits the image of God. Again no mention here or anywhere else in the Bible,
that a daughter was born in the image of God via inheritance from Adam or even from
Eve, that is if one maintains that she was created in the image of God in the first
place.
It
is established via Genesis 5:3
that the Godly intention of design is that the Image of God was originally
established by intended precident from eans of inheritance from Fathers to Sons
from fathers to their sons just as Seth was begotten of Adam and was thereby
made in the image of Adam through whom he inherits the image of God.
Historically it appears as time extends further from Eden so do the implications
of original sin. Herein, the intended fundamental principles of Godly design is
demonstrated and not the present day macro reality of present day genetic design
of trait inheritance by composite of both parents wherein there is both grace
and original sin present.
Thankfully, yet in his grace God makes all things new.
A
side point is that the dynamicism present in the shift away from the purity and simplicity
of Genesis design to the present day ramifications of human genetic design delineates
a primary principle of change in the reality of human existence in the course of history.
It is that according to Biblical principles of reality that the physical properties
and laws found not only in human genetics, physicality, etc. but also that the nature
and bounds of physical reality itself are seen as likely influenced by the abundance
and lack of the spiritual presence of God and as that presence waxes and wanes, such
physical laws of science (for
example, perhaps in radioactive decay observed in Carbon 14 dating, etc.)
are not entirely constant from age to age though likely unnoticeable to the mass
consensus of humanity. It is marked by degradation of Genesis design in original
sin and the healing presence of God in Grace in the World now manifested through
the works of the Savior, Jesus Christ. Also, such reasoning presents itself as a
means of inductive segway to explain how it is possible for the miracles of God
recorded in the Biblical timeline, ranging the span of Genesis to the spiritual
gifts of the Apostolic era in early Christian history, as such being
supernatural defy the rationality of science and its fundamental laws, how such
are deemed to have been present in the world in the past, but not so much
presently observed in the modern era officially.
If one
would attempt to dissuade this point by maintaining the argument that just
because it is not recorded in the Bible that the image of God is transported to
daughters of humanity through birth, that this does not preclude it from being
so, then in response to that line of reasoning, it would be asserted that God's
ways are higher in purpose, design, and foresight than humanity (Isiah 55:9-11), and that God does not insert passages
into his Bible arbitrarily or without purpose. Also, that the same goes for that which
is omitted from the Bible, that such omissions are likewise divinely purposeful. One
such omission would that the notion that daughters receive the image of God in birth
via means of inheritance from Mother or even from their Father. In this case for good
reason, because as we are repeatedly observing through cumulative reasoning that Woman
even in her feminine humanity does not by divine design posses the masculine image
of God, that such a notion is contradictory with other portions of the Holy Bible
including 1 Corinthians 11:7-9 and 1
Timothy 2:12-15.
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