Jesus is the Portal of God’s two dimensions of His nature.

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5)            The ‘image’ dimension of God is the Portal of His Divinity. His Image, truly Christological, must exhibit knowledge, which continually strums at the strings of anthropopathism. Exodus 3:7 “And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;” and for which He acted and displayed His miraculous power, leading them in the pillar of cloud in daylight and in pillar of fire at night. Luke 16:15 “And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.” Speaking of knowledge, the Image is truly the Personality revealed in Colossians 2:3 “In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” That the ‘image’ of Genesis 1:26 is a Personage has its documentation in Colossians 3:4 “When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.” Scriptural understanding proves that God thinks too. Exodus 32:14 “And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.” King David, the psalmist wrote: “But I am poor and needy; yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer; make no tarrying, O my God” (Psalm 40:17).

God remembered to save Lot and his family

                One of the comforting things about God is His remembering stance. Genesis 9:16 “And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.” In Genesis 8:1 God remembered Noah and the living things of the ark, and made sure they came out to live their normal lives again. In Genesis 19:29, God remembered what His conversation with Abraham concluded on and saved Lot in the annihilation of Sodom and Gomorrah. In Genesis 30:22 God remembered Rachel, who had been barren for some years. In the Book of Exodus 2:24 God heard the cries of Israel when they wallowed in Egyptian bondage, because He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. God did not forget His promise to Sarah. Genesis 21:1 “And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.”

                If God does not make verbal use of words the Scripture will not read, “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light” (Genesis 1:3).Genesis 2:16-17 “And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 17) But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” While in the wilderness, we read of Mosaic writing, “And God spake all these words, saying,” when all ears of the children of Israel heard Him when the Ten Commandments were given in Exodus 20:1-26. The twenty-second verse reads, “And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.”

“…it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth”

                There is no repudiation against the fact that God hears. Psalm 6:8-9 8) “Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping. 9) The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.” Quoting from the Old Testament, Stephen reminded Israel of God’s feeling towards them. Acts 7:34 “I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.” Genesis 6:6 “And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.” Verses like these ones enable man to believe that man does not only have feelings like God, his Creator, but also that grieving the heart of the Divinity is too dangerous. God knew what atrocities man would perpetrate, and what looks like a grieving surprise to the Almighty is certainly not so. Nothing takes Him by surprise. Knowing that God feels what we feel will draw a wise person very close to Him and this knowledge should bind a wise person to the God, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. Sharing an attribute with the Deity is mind-blowing awesomeness!

                The Bible tells us that God did rest. Genesis 2:2 “And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.” His rest did not result from the fatigue of toilsome pain. It was a basking in the euphoria of divine accomplishment. The LORD had perfected and put in place, the instrumentality that ushers the ineluctability of the Incarnation. The Adamic bait will serve as an entrapment and Lucifer will be captured for judgment. After about seven thousand years Christ will appear the second time to rule for one thousand years. Soon after that, hell will receive all spiritual miscreants. Eternal peace will commence. Rest, God did rest: for everything is in proper place.

God gave Adam His two dimensions of nature

                God gave Adam His two dimensions of nature to legalize His intention to develop human relations. The LORD is called a Shepherd in Psalms 23:1; 80:1 and John 10:11. His bucolic stance of the ecclesiastic order admits the Christological office, pointing to the soteriological essence. Without Him, by Whom all things consists, Who is before all things, salvation of souls is a mere mirage. As the ultimate Judge, He allowed Abraham to intercede for the guiltless before Him in Genesis 18:25. Isaiah 33:22 “For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; he will save us.”

The anthropopathic and anthropomorphic dimensions of God clearly show that the Creator is not without acumen, conviction, emotions, moral drive, which are carried out with physical externalities, giving proofs of His Divine Personality.

                Getting born again is strictly a conscious effort on the part of an individual. It is of a personal conviction that, as the word of God says, Jesus is truly the only Saviour of the world. A soteriological dependence on the finished work of Jesus is the sole belief requirement of Scripture. Get born again by saying this simple prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!”

(Concluded)

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