The Image of God and Our Own Image
The Image of God and Our Own Image Colossians 1:15 says, "Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:" 2 Corinthians 4:4 also speaks of the image of God: "In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them." God created the first man to reveal himself in the form (image) of a sinner. The first man is the image of God. God has no form. The form means the body, like clothing. Saying that God took on a body means that God came in a fleshly body. The first man was God Himself who went into the dust and became a man in order to give man a body of sin. The first man was created in the image of God. However, he had a body of sin. Therefore, the one who came in the flesh to break the chains of the body of sin was Jesus. The first man and Jesus were God who came in the form of a sinner. Jesus Christ is referred to in ...