Thus far we have seen how God experiences some inner compulsion to share himself and his powers with created being; a different being; a being with the power to talk back, to question, and even to reject his advances. This desire to share is out of the overflowing abundance of a loving God. In time we will see how Christ enters the world and acts out that love, firstly by behaving as God would...

2 Corinthians 4:7 We have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. 8 We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 10 We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. 11 For...

The concept of humanity being created in the image and likeness of God is a profound and foundational belief in many religious traditions, particularly within Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. This doctrine is rooted in the scriptural accounts, primarily from the Book of Genesis in the Bible, which narrates the creation of humans in a unique and intimate manner. According to Genesis 1:26-27, God...

26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” 27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.  28 God blessed them and said to...