Oldsaint24
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note: this thread should probably not be in the Cal and Arm forum but it does have valid truth pertaining to the Cal and Arm feud.
Understanding the creation of man and his fall is fundamental in establishing a foundation for ones theology. After all, what is better than starting at the beginning and in the beginning Elohim said, "Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness." What is that likeness and image you ask? Elohim is the Triune God. He is One but His singularity of being consists of three separate and distinct entities that are understood as the Father, the Logos (Son, Jesus), the Holy Spirit; the Us and Our in the previously quoted scripture. This image and likeness applied to the creation of man is spirit, body, soul. Man was likewise created as a triune being consisting of a body and soul and a spirit. Again, created Man (singular) consists of three separate and distinct entities, a body a soul and a spirit.
God placed man in the garden and said, "...but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it; for in the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die." They, Adam and Eve, sinned and ate and died that very day. They did not die physically that very day. They died spiritually that very day. Their spirit died and we immediately see the effects of that death. Adam and Eve were no longer in the image and likeness of God but now in the corrupt image of fallen man. Adam and Eve now corrupted, body and soul only, spiritually dead are unable to produce/procreate children in the image and likeness of God. Instead, Adam and Eve procreate children in the image and likeness of fallen man, NOT in the original image and likeness of the Perfect and Holy Living God. We see this truth in Gen. 5...v.1 "in the day that God CREATED MAN, in the likeness of God made he him." and v.3......"......and begat a son in HIS OWN likeness, after HIS IMAGE".
Why wasn't the son of Adam born in the image and likeness of God, instead born in the likeness of sinful man? Because imperfection cannot produce perfection. All children of men, all mankind is born imperfect, corrupted, spiritually dead/void. In the womb man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin. All of us are born fallen , spiritually dead.........with the one exception.........Jesus Christ the Son of the Living God.
Understanding the creation of man and his fall is fundamental in establishing a foundation for ones theology. After all, what is better than starting at the beginning and in the beginning Elohim said, "Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness." What is that likeness and image you ask? Elohim is the Triune God. He is One but His singularity of being consists of three separate and distinct entities that are understood as the Father, the Logos (Son, Jesus), the Holy Spirit; the Us and Our in the previously quoted scripture. This image and likeness applied to the creation of man is spirit, body, soul. Man was likewise created as a triune being consisting of a body and soul and a spirit. Again, created Man (singular) consists of three separate and distinct entities, a body a soul and a spirit.
God placed man in the garden and said, "...but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it; for in the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die." They, Adam and Eve, sinned and ate and died that very day. They did not die physically that very day. They died spiritually that very day. Their spirit died and we immediately see the effects of that death. Adam and Eve were no longer in the image and likeness of God but now in the corrupt image of fallen man. Adam and Eve now corrupted, body and soul only, spiritually dead are unable to produce/procreate children in the image and likeness of God. Instead, Adam and Eve procreate children in the image and likeness of fallen man, NOT in the original image and likeness of the Perfect and Holy Living God. We see this truth in Gen. 5...v.1 "in the day that God CREATED MAN, in the likeness of God made he him." and v.3......"......and begat a son in HIS OWN likeness, after HIS IMAGE".
Why wasn't the son of Adam born in the image and likeness of God, instead born in the likeness of sinful man? Because imperfection cannot produce perfection. All children of men, all mankind is born imperfect, corrupted, spiritually dead/void. In the womb man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin. All of us are born fallen , spiritually dead.........with the one exception.........Jesus Christ the Son of the Living God.