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image of the divine. He was created to be the temple and dwelling place of the Holy
Spirit of God. Furthermore, we are told that redeemed and regenerate man is as
Christ is in this world.

I John 4:17
By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the
day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world.

Man need not wait until he goes to heaven one day to be conformed to the image of
Christ. The elect and chosen ones of God are as Christ is even now in this world. We
are groaning in anticipation of this mortal body being put off and immortality being
put on, of this corruptible flesh being removed and the incorruptible being put on.
We don’t know what our appearance will be like, but we know we shall be like the
Son of God for we shall see Him just as He is (I John 3:2).

There are many scriptures that reveal the majesty of man’s creation. The image has
been marred through sin and deceit, but Yahweh has never changed His plan. He
said, “Let us create man in Our image, after Our likeness” and one day all of creation
will see man revealed in the very image and likeness of God. Yahshua, when
disputing with the Pharisees, quoted from the Psalm that says,

Psalms 82:6
I said, "You are gods, and all of you are sons of the Most High.”

Oh how Satan hates for men and women to understand these truths. Satan’s desire
is to debase man that he might continue to rule over him. How he fears man coming
to an understanding of his Creator’s design for mankind.

If women view man as some creature that is little better than a beast, then Satan is
able to cause them to readily agree that it would be debasing and detestable for
woman to submit to man. It would be little better than living your life to take care of
a dog or some other animal. But when woman realizes that Yahweh did a marvelous
thing in creating man and that He fashioned man in the very image and glory of His
own person, then things appear much differently.

Does it not sound somewhat blasphemous to our ears when we hear a man proclaim,
“I am a god and a son of the Most High God”? Yet this is the very thing Yahshua
testified of man when he quoted from the Psalms. Does it not seem a bit
presumptuous for man to say, “I am as Christ in this world?” Yet this is the apostle
John’s testimony.

Why does it strike our ears as blasphemy to stand and boldly declare “I am created