Foundations

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” Genesis 1:26 NASB Our image – We just…

Return to Me

Then God said, “Let us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; . . . Genesis 1:26 NASB Image – We have probably explored this verse twenty times (plus a full chapter in Guardian Angel).  That might incline you to think we have plumbed its depths.  Ah, the illusion of information.  We haven’t…

The Sleeper Must Awaken

As a dream when one awakes, so O Lord, when you awake, you shall despise their image.  Psalm 73:20  Hebrew World translation Dream – Ah, so you didn’t realize that Frank Herbert[1] employed Hebrew thinking, did you?  Well, maybe it was just an accident (really?).  The Hebrew word halom (dream) has a decidedly different use…

Identity Theft (4)

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky . . .”  Genesis 1:26 NASB Image – Now we know that tselem (image) is associated culturally with the representation of the god in…

Identity Theft (3)

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky . . .”  Genesis 1:26 NASB Image – Culture determines the meaning of the word.  That’s the message in the bottle.  We learned that…

Identity Theft (2)

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky . . .”  Genesis 1:26 NASB Image – Typical exegesis of the Genesis account begins with the presuppositions of our empirically based scientific perspective. …

Identity Theft (1)

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky . . .”  Genesis 1:26 NASB Image – What is the meaning of the word “man”?  When I was lecturing in Margate, South Africa,…

What Is God Like?

And Elohim said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over . . .”  Genesis 1:26  ISR Image/Likeness – God created you.  You are the representation of His image and likeness.  What does that mean?  How are you like God?  If you can’t answer that question for…

Time Travel

And God created Man in His image and in the image of God He created him, male and female He created them. Genesis 1:27 Image – An enormous amount of material has been written about this word,tselem. Most of it attempts to elucidate the attributes of the divine image found in human beings. That approach…

Quién Da La Orden/ Quién La Recibe

Y dijo Dios: Hagamos al hombre a nuestra imagen, conforme a nuestra semejanza; Génesis 1:26 A Nuestra Imagen – ¿Qué significa el relato de Génesis cuando dice que los seres humanos fueron hechos a la imagen de Dios? La pregunta ciertamente ha permanecido al frente de innumerables tratados teológicos. A través de los siglos, la…