To summarize, this Respond47 apologetic treatise,The image of God by an Orange to Oranges Analogy, summarizes a correct orthodox christian hermetical knowledge of the Image of God imparted upon Humanity in the domain of single entity, that of individual human beings. Of vital importance because presently and for the past six decades under a pretense sophistry of the Image of God, The Spirit of this Age has caused North American Christianity to teeter even unto the brink of a cataclysmic inflection point of Psalm 78:8 as a “rebellious generation” whom God searches out and tries instead of a generation in which it is said “... I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their
hearts;” (Jeramiah 31:33) and “... for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more”. (Jeramiah 31:34) So America and the West is so searched even by the seven spirits of God “... sent forth into all the earth”. (Revelation 5:6) One observes by rough estimate that over 90% of all “Protestant” affiliated church organizations and other “Protestant” related media entities are in egregious denial of God's reality basis for the Image of God. And at present date, that is easily a low estimate of circumstances. Most of these religious institutions and affiliates (Seminary, Christian academia, media, etc) appear to do so explicitly by statement of Faith, others implicitly by church behavior and communications.
Therefore, “She”, even the church herself, surrenders to the God of this world, to the Power of the Prince of the Air, the foundations of the Holy Bible and all of God's truth, as she blasphemously belays Genesis 1:27 to maintain“... In the Image of God created he her (woman).” To say that God cannot and did not create by logic construct a coherent book in so much the length of the first 2 pages of the Holy Bible, “She”, the present protestant church, challenges the creator of Heaven and Earth, saying contrary Psalm 51 that God cannot, “build in HIS good pleasure the walls of Jerusalem” by his construction but that, instead, (HE) must submit to mans way, man's inferior vacillating value systems in vogue for the day (humanism, liberal modernism constructs such as feminism, Buddhism, yin yang, etc.)
to accomplish his ends. Children of men, that is a far lesser God than the God that is, whereby he has commanded “Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God,
...”. (Deuteronomy 6:16)
So the prophecy through Isaiah speaks to a rebellious North America and the West at large. “Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?. (Isaiah 45:10)
That illuminated, as if that were a thing of little consequence, what this particular treatise is not is a dictum concerning the image of God upon Unities. In Section 2 this is covered by examination of Saint Augustine of Hippo citing his work in Book VII on the Trinity.
The Image of God Analogized by an Orange to Oranges Analogy is summarized as follows;
To remonstrate the Image exegesis logic of this analogy, let the mind/body/soul aspect of man wrought in the 1st portion of Genesis 1:27 (“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him. ...”) be analogous to the color orange possessing the potency of “orangeness” in color. Furthermore, by recursion a certain form and form(s) exists descending from Jesus Christ who is also 'The Image of God” by the “New Covenant”, by Christianity. Let that particular form of God's Image be analogous to the characteristic possessing the potency of a type of object with compound specificity, that being analogized as a fruit and in particular specificity, only the fruit known as the “orange”. Hence,
“Orange to Oranges” we have the image of God delineated in form by one.) a color and by two.) a specific fruit type both under a single phonetic spelling of the word “orange”.
From this analogy, we see that Man is always imbued the image of God via Genesis 1:27, imputed upon him in birth as the color orange. (Woman never is.) Also, as when a man authentically becomes a Christian, accepting the Lord Jesus Christ into his heart as Lord, he becomes a dual form bearer of the image of God in individuality. The pluralism in analogy is demonstrated by a Christian man being an orange colored orange citrus fruit.
Lastly, a woman as individual is not born into this world as an Image bearer of God via Genesis 1:27 for it is a logical impossibility. She can as an individual become an image bearer of God in the person of Jesus Christ in her Christianity, her acceptance of the Lord Jesus Christ wherein she is analogized as an orange fruit of a variety which posses a different color other than “orange”. Say an orange fruit of the variety which possess a golden hue in color. Noted here is that this New Covenant Image of God in the woman is under a specific construction. The Christian Woman's Image of Christ is imbued in a very specific form or mode whose principal potency is “submissiveness”. As James an apostle of Jesus Christ imparts concerning faith and works in The General Epistle of James, so a woman
demonstrates the works of her faith by her submission to authority. For her image in Christ, the individual Christian Woman reverberates from Jesus Christ's precedent of submitting himself to baptism whereby himself being the bridegroom had no need in himself. Christ who is greater than all, Christ, the
Son of the Blessed (Psalm 21:6, Mark 14:61) who made himself weak as us all yet perfect in virtue and submitted himself to baptism for our sakes as precedent (noting Romans 8:3) and “For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.”. (Hebrews 2:16-17) If woman adorns
biblical authority, she steps outside and diametrically opposed to the ontological reverberation of Christ wherein she is graciously allowed participation in the Image as individual.
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Respond47 Image of God:
Orange to Oranges Analogy
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Epilogue The Image of God Analogized by an Orange to Oranges Analogy:
The forms are the delimiter (logos reference Malachi 3:6) in the logical form construction of the Holy Bible for the Image of God in the individual person. To invalidate all logic by ascribing to woman the individual that which is outsides the bounds of God's permission, is an attempt to try and nullify the Holy and Perfect Logic demonstrated in the Word of God. Likewise, it is an attack also the Ideas of Plato, and the truth foundations of Aristotle's Organon. To maintain obstinate validation the one, one has to invalidate the others including the entirety of Western Civilization
from Byzantium to now, intermediary Judea-Christian thought and values from which the West has drawn its life blood. Then in traversing and propounding so anti-christ an existentialism, a certain Neitzcshe-ean causality dictates that those are left to both light and navigate the lanterns at dawn both in the churches and in life itself or rather the lack thereof. How then shall their family lines and lands continue to all generations? (reference Psalm 49:11). And on that note concerning that hour of the world which is so present with us today, behold, how pertinent the forms are to actualized reality, for Jesus said, “I tell you that he will avenge them speedily.
Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:9) and the by the prophet (≈700 B.C. ) God spoke likewise concerning the form of the children of men “And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. Yea,
truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment. And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him. For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke. According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence." (Isaiah 59:14-18) and again by Jesus Christ “And then shall appear
the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.” (Mathew 24:30) and “And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.”. (Luke 16:17)
Woman is by Biblical form the bride of Christ not the head of Christ. (Mathew 12:49-50, Revelation 21:22) The will of God is in harmony with him, and therefore, the order in which the LORD designed. Hence, the body of Christ does not lead the head, Holy Jerusalem, the bride of the Lamb does not reign over the Father, and woman in that which is contrary to God cannot bear authority in Godliness, be she by Mystery and Caiaphas, a One who proclaims herself priest/ minister/pastor or any other authority figure in the Holy Church of Christ. God eventually withdraws himself (Psalm 101:4 and 101:8 and Psalm 37:35-36), and the Church is no longer the Church of God but a vehicle for the other Master. The Holy Bible is
authoritative. The Word of God has decreed by logic and truth construction itself as well as by Holy Apostles that form of woman priest/religious teacher is contrary the form of Christs Image for her, and the Fathers design for creation as herein demonstrated in this work. The christology of the Apostles Paul and Peter in 1 Corinthians 11:7-9, Timothy 2:12-15, and 1 Peter 3:1-7, is sound guidance.