In Our Image After Our Likeness (1)
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You cannot procreate the eternality of Christ; He is not a product of creationism. The phenomenality of the Word becoming flesh is the facticity that God came physical into our world – the Incarnation! The Eternal Christ wore a man called Jesus the way you wear your shirt.
Jesus is the Creator of all things. For this reason is the Scripture which says, “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God” (Hebrews 12:2). Seated at the right hand makes Jesus the eternal power of God – you cannot beat that! By the ingenuity of providential design, we have the image of the Almighty.
Now, God knew that Christ, the Creator, must come down to our Adamic level for the actuation of the soteriological conception. We must, therefore, take His image to enable the legal expediency of the soteriology. It was a premeditated conceptualisation when the Father said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:” for without Christ, the prototype Image, there can be nothing made that needs to be made. Man’s extrication from sinfulness would never happen without the involvement of the Image after which we were created. He made us in His image and likeness to give legality to divine protection over us forever.Read More