THE DESIGN OF GOD
THE DESIGN OF GOD
Genesis 1:26-31
THEN GOD SAID….
“LET US” Plurality of Persons
“MAKE MAN” Creative Ability
“IN OUR” Self-Aware
“IMAGE” Resemble
“LIKENESS” Represent
“LET US” Plurality of Persons
Communication
Community
Decision-Making
“MAKE MAN” Creative Ability
Reasoned Thought
Planning
Imagination
Dominion / Authority
“IN OUR” Self-Aware
Self-actualization: To realize one’s own potential and fulfill it.
Commonality (How the three persons of God are alike to one another)
“IMAGE” Resemble (Shadow) How we are like God
Eternal
Spiritual
Moral Agency
“LIKENESS” Represent:
Authority / Dominion
Functionary: Steward
Rule over Creation
God’s Agents
GOD CREATED MAN; MALE AND FEMALE
Male and Female, He created THEM
God blessed THEM
God instructed THEM
Be fruitful and multiply
Fill the earth and subdue it
Rule over every other living thing
Male and Female:
God’s creativity
Equality / Equally in the image of God
Relational Connection (as within the trinity)
God blessed them
A Given Purpose / Significance
Synergy: When the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
God instructed them (How to fulfill purpose and significance)
Be fruitful and multiply - needs both male and female
Fill the earth and subdue it
Great task / Challenge
Exercise lordship over / manage
Rule / manage every living thing / bring it under control
AND IT WAS SO - AND IT WAS VERY GOOD.
Then sin entered the world…
But God’s plan and the ultimate fulfillment of His grand design is unthwarted.
For God is redeeming and restoring mankind through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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