The Image of God (Hebrew: צֶלֶם אֱלֹהִים; tzelem elohim, lit. “image of God”, often appearing in Latin as Imago Dei) is a concept and theological doctrine that asserts that human beings are created in God‘s image and therefore have inherent value independent of their utility or function.
Although I have received Christ in faith, I must emphasize that it was not simply accomplished by blind faith. I had to make a logical, and an intellectually informed decision to give my life to Jesus. I have heard it said that you can still be a Christian without removing your brain. Some may argue that belief in Christ, or any religious notion, is unreasonable, and is some form of intellectual suicide. This is not true, belief in the existence of God, as an all-powerful, self-existing, and benevolent Diety is the most philosophically sound, and most logical explanation of reality the world has ever known.
Science, empirical science is good, but is, in its present dispensation, limited. Its limit is the human senses. Only things that can be touched, seen, heard, and tasted are held as valid evidence of our reality. Empirical science limited to these senses only, and is, in most cases, ignorant to the idea that there is the potential for a reality that is invisible to our sight, un audible to our hearing, etc. This mental platform is as narrow-minded as those who thought the earth flat, simply because they had not sailed around the distance of it. In blushing error, they decided that since their “natural exploration” of the earth had given no indication that it had an end, they assumed it simply went on for miles and miles, until it dropped off into a sudden abyss..
The point I want to make is an apology to the fact that humanity and consciousness itself, is one of many proofs of the tangibility of the transcendent. Humans are made in God’s image…..You are made in God’s image. The reason you feel, love, create, and think on the level that you do, is because you have been intentionally designed by a Creator who possesses those same attributes..
If you look around the earth, you will see that it is potentially, a perfect garden. Complete with a fine tuned atmosphere, a well oiled rock cycle, a delicate eco-system, a plethora of species of beautiful and strange flora and fauna, and a complex food chain. You and I are a part of that food chain. At the top actually. Every animal under us has some degree of “soulish” characteristics. (appetite, survival instinct, social behavior) but their intellect is limited to these base passions. They are subject only to their animalistic instinct that is bent on surviving, and reproducing. Sadly, many naturalists and secular humanists have included the human “species” into that school. This is great error.
No other beast of the field or fish in the sea, or bird in the air shares the capabilities of a human being. Here are some of the many things that make us “different” from the animals:
We love, we create art, we write symphonies, we contemplate our origin, we have cultures and morals built upon the foundation of the sense of the transcendent super-natural, we are political, we design cars, tools, trucks, space craft, jeans, egg beaters, jelly beans, microscopes, telescopes, computers, crayons, nuclear weapons, antibiotics, and tennis shoes…I think you see my point?
To wrap this up, i want to remind you, that YOU ARE made in God’s image. you create, because He is a creator. You feel, because He is an emotional person. The greatest implication of this conclusion is that you have an inherent value. You are special and unique: made in His image, and made to be in a personal relationship with Him…
Genesis 2:7 ” And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.”
Shalom
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