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God Created the Man in his Spiritual Image
Man and woman were created in the image of God: « Then God said: “Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and the domestic animals and all the earth and every creeping animal that is moving on the earth.” And God went on to create the man in his image, in God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. Further, God blessed them, and God said to them: “Be fruitful and become many, fill the earth and subdue it, and have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and every living creature that is moving on the earth » (Genesis 1:26-28). It was to the spiritual image of God that they were created, that is, to say, with the divine ability to « create » life (in their case procreation), by having children, but also to administer the earth, the plant life, animal and human lives, all with the help of God. The action of man and woman would be in the spiritual image of God, imbued with love and wisdom (1 Corinthians 13:1).
How to understand that the man and the woman (the spiritual Man) would be the image of God on the planet Earth? The spiritual Man would have the role of « god », as if Jehovah had been directly on earth to carry out his will. Taking up the main orientations of God for the administration of the Earth by Man, there are two major ones:
– The creation of new human beings by procreation between a man and his wife, united in the sacred bonds of divine marriage and as well as the education of their offspring: « Be fruitful and become many, fill the earth ».
– The second great divine orientation, for the mission of humans, regarding the Earth, would be to « subdue it »: « Have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and every living creature that is moving on the earth ». It is the administration of the wild and domestic animal kingdom with all that this includes, namely the administration of territories and their resources, for humans and wild and domestic animals.
These two great administrative orientations of the Earth could have been directly carried out by God. However, God wanted and wants the Spiritual Man to be the representative of God or the image of God’s loving sovereignty over the planet Earth. Consequently, the man and the woman would have the role of the image of God on earth for the children who should honor their father and their mother who will have given them life and administer the animal kingdom which would be subject to them, as the ‘one naturally submits to God.
To clearly show that the fact that God delegates some missions to his intelligent creatures, assigning them the function of « god », as a representative in his image, let us take the example of Moses and Aaron who had to appear before the Pharaoh of Egypt. Here is what it is written: “Jehovah then said to Moses: “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your own brother will become your prophet You are to repeat everything that I will command you, and Aaron your brother will speak to Pharaoh, and he will send the Israelites away from his land » (Exodus 7:1,2). We see from this text that Jehovah commissioned Moses to have the function of « God », connected with his mission.
Still regarding humans exercising the function that normally belongs to God, that of judge, here is what is written in Psalms 82:6: « I have said, ‘You are gods, All of you are sons of the Most High’ ». Moreover, Jesus Christ takes up this text in John 10:34, to show that if it is written in the Bible (the Law), the very fact that Jesus designates himself as the Son of God, was in no way blasphemous (John 10:34-36).
Likewise, the spiritual Man who will administer the Earth, in the future earthly paradise, will have the function of « God », reflecting the loving image of his sovereignty over humans, and over the animal kingdom and as well as for the reasonable administration of the earth’s natural resources. Thus the fact that Man is in the image of God means that in certain aspects of his missions entrusted by God, Man will have the role of « god », without usurping, of course, the place of God: « Keep this mental attitude in you that was also in Christ Jesus, who, although he was existing in God’s form, did not even consider the idea of trying to be equal to God » (Philippians 2:5,6).
The sacred value of life
Since the man and the woman are in the spiritual image of God, an act of voluntary homicide, even involuntary, is a sin against the spiritual image of God. Anyone who causes the death of another human being, from a atonement point of view, must pay for it with his own life. This is what Jehovah God made clear to Noah and his family, after the flood, on leaving the ark: « Besides that, I will demand an accounting for your lifeblood. I will demand an accounting from every living creature; and from each man I will demand an accounting for the life of his brother. Anyone shedding man’s blood, by man will his own blood be shed, for in God’s image He made man » (Genesis 9:5,6).
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