The Image of God

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This paper uses passages from the New Testament to state that God has a male form and that man is actually a physical representation of God. The author points out another interpretation: that God is transcendent, which means being beyond the regular universal or material existence; therefore, the idea that we were made in the image of Christ, who has taken a physical form and reflects the spiritual attributes of God, makes sense. The paper further explains that modern researchers are beginning to embrace the concept that our likeness to God is more of a spiritual likeness than a physical likeness, based on the creative ability of humans.

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"Romans say that God foreordained men to take the image of His Son, who is Jesus Christ. So here then is confirmation that Jesus Christ and men do in fact have the same image as each other. God wanted men to look like His Son, and so men are in the image of Christ. Throughout the Bible, especially the New Testament, the terms Christ and God are frequently used interchangeably. One might think then that men looking like God and men looking like Christ are both really the same thing. However, going back to the 1 Corinthians passage that states men were also created in the glory of God, another interpretation can be arrived at. Christ is referred to in numerous places as being the glory of God."

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