Created in His Image

Week 3 of our Bible Study

I hope you are enjoying this and learning as I am!

Read Genesis 1:26 and a simple 2 and then 3 letter word may pop out at you:

"US"  and "OUR"

What???

We are taught there is One True God--So who is "us"??

Now Read Genesis 1:27 

And we are back to the singular of God "He" and "His".

This must be some kind of contradiction revealing to us how untrustworthy

 the Bible is and therefore NOT possibly the Word of God!

Anyone who argues this does not understand the Trinity.

Right here in the first chapter of the Bible God is revealing to us 

His Triune Nature. 

(although at this point we wouldn't understand this until we read other scriptures later on)

The expression of "He /His" reveals the unity of the Trinity

and the expression of "Us / Our" reveals the Fullness of the Trinity.

These two verses also explains how unique we are as 

we are made in God's Image.

God does not create anything else in all of creation in His Image.

So this must be very meaningful and something very special.

Being made in God's Image means:

1. We are His creation, We belong to Him--BUT--we are NOT animals

(Evolutionists will wrongly insist that we are nothing but mere animals)  

2. Being made in His Image means that we are like God, such that:

a. We create because He creates

b. We are spiritual because He is spiritual

c. We communicate because He communicates

d. We are intelligent because He is intelligent

e. We love because God loves

3.  Because we are God's Image Bearer it is a sin 

to commit murder or abortion 

thus destroying one of God's Image Bearers.

Think about this:   The Human body is NOT essential to image bearing.

We might NOT "look like" God.

Our bodies are the dwelling place, or vessel, for our soul

and our bodies are the Temple of the Holy Spirit....

That makes me feel pretty special, how about you?

And can you see how that would make us unique and set apart from the animals?

And why it would be sinful to harm / destroy the vessel of someone's soul 

and the Temple of the Holy Spirit?

So---If God Created us---then what about Evolution?

We can't "evolve" into becoming the Image Bearer of God

If we did, then to what end point? 

If we evolved from "Hominid"  to "Human + Soul"

 then what do we evolve into next?

Evolution is a Theory, not a Law (like Gravity)

So it is not proven---and it never can be because it is not testable.

But that doesn't mean it's entirely untrue!

There are 2 kinds of Evolution;

Micro-evolution which is natural selection, or speciation which is when, over time, an animal adapts to changes in the environment and becomes a new species.  This is what Darwin discovered when he hypothesized how one species of sparrow might evolve into another.

Macro-evolution is the changes over millions of years from one "kind" of animal into another "kind".  Like a Fish to a Frog, or a Dinosaur into a Bird.

This is what Darwin proposed in his Theory of Evolution---that over the course of millions of year and through a long series of micro-evolutions a creature evolves from one "kind" into another.

But there is no proof of Macro-evolution

And it is impossible to test this theory as we do not have a billion year life span

And there are no examples of the evolution of complexity, such as eyes, or feathers, or even the flagellum of a bacteria.

Atheist take it on FAITH that Evolution is true.

In fact, there is less Proof for Evolution than there is for God.

Check this out:

Atheist turned Christian---Lee Strobel 

Explains why Creation Makes Sense: