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“ Christ, the exact imprint of the image of the invisible God. ”
The Hebrew author writing in Genesis used the plural form of God “our” as to not define God by any single attribute alone. When God breathed life into Adam in Gen. 2 that was a reference to the Holy Spirit. That is what it was to be in God’s “image” or “reflection” in that way. Humanity had the indwelling presence of God’s spirit and were to walk by the spirit and not by the flesh or the law. But by believing the devil that we could have a righteousness apart from faith in God, that is, by the knowledge of good and evil or the law, they lost that life by eating from the wrong tree causing the Spirit to depart from within them. The absence of life is death. Christ died for the sins of the world so he could offer the free gift of the Holy Spirit to the world. (Gal 3, 5: Rom 8 among many others.) For freedom Christ has set us free, but not to sin, but to be free from sin. God writes the law of faith or the law of the Spirit of life on our hearts, not any law of works. AMEN! |
