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Let Us Make Man in Our Image...

he Bible opens with the account of God’s work of re-creating a world that has become
Tsubject to judgment, a world covered with darkness and made formless and void. A fall
has already occurred as a third of the angels followed Satan in rebellion and they have been
cast out of heaven down to the earth. Those who once stood in the presence of the One who
is Light have been sealed up in darkness. Since they have rejected the Light, they have
reaped the consequences of their choice. Even as Egypt once suffered the judgment of
darkness, a darkness so deep that it could be felt, and no one dared move for the three days
that it lasted, so too did the angels who abandoned their first estate know a time when
darkness was their portion.
The day came, however, when God began to work to re-create the shattered earth
which had fallen under the curse of darkness. In the span of six days God completely
refashioned the Earth from a chaotic and formless void into something that He declared
was “good.” What occurred on each day holds great spiritual truth that relates to the same
process that man must go through in order to become a complete spiritual man fashioned
after the image of God. On the sixth day we are told that God created man.

Genesis 1:26-27
Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness...” God
created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him...

It is the false understanding of many that Adam bore the image of God, and that prior
to the fall in the Garden he was perfect. Many assume that Christ came to restore man to
the condition Adam knew before his fall. The truth, however, is that Adam was not a
perfected man. He had the potential to bear the image of God and to be fully fashioned
according to God’s likeness, but Adam never attained to this. The apostle Paul gives us
further insight into this.

I Corinthians 15:45-49
So also it is written, "The first man, Adam, became a living soul." The last Adam
became a life-giving spirit. However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then
the spiritual. The first man is from the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven.
As is the earthy, so also are those who are earthy; and as is the heavenly, so also are
those who are heavenly. And just as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall
also bear the image of the heavenly.

Adam was merely a living soul, but of God we are told that He is Spirit, and those who
worship Him must do so in Spirit and in truth. The first man to ever bear the perfected
image of God was not Adam, but Christ Yahshua. He declared this truth with the words:

John 14:9
"Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? He
who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, ‘Show us the Father'?”

The first Adam could not say “He who has seen me has seen the Father.” The