What is the express image of God?
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" trying....trying...trying" that's right you admit that you do not keep the commandments, these others are more righteous than you for they believe that salvation is not in keeping commandments but in believing.
Thanks for the link. I did not realize that the NASB read that way.
YW
I really like Biblegateway for their ability to show five parallel versions at once. Really helps to get all perspectives.
I agree. I use it quite often.
keypurr
Well-known member
I did not mention salvation did I?
I only keep the commandments because I love God. I do not expect anything in return for he has already given me much.
They are not a burden to me Totton. And if I fail in trying my savour has paid the price for me.
keypurr
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I like my e-sword program better. I can check verses with commentaries, keep notes, much better.
Ben Masada
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The express image of God is in His attributes. Essencially, he has no image. (Isa. 46:5; Deut. 4:15,16)
Ben Masada
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Show me in the Tanach what you mean. You should know by now that I am not a Christian but a Jew.
Which is EXACTLY why I responded the way I did. This is a Christian Forum Ben...we don't use the TaNaK, we use the Bible.
We also use the LXX, which is the OLDEST extant TaNaK in existence.
It was the scriptures that Jesus, the Apostles and the High Priests used in the days of the last Temple.
by all means but if we are using dud translations let's warn people
That's not staying on point. Start a thread if you feel so strongly, don't deflect this one.
Did someone appoint you Mod? you gave a duff translation on THIS thread, I contended with you on this thread.
It's not YOUR thread. You may be the OP but the thread is not yours to control the normal rule for a forum is to STAY on topic. The OWNER is TOL but as you have always been on the losing end of things here, it's not surprising you would want someone to deflect the issue.
keypurr
Well-known member
That is true, but I started it. So stop telling folks what they and can not post on this thread. Mr Knight has people to do that. They do not need or want your help.
The OP on this thread is What is the express image of God?
You should stick to that topic or get off it. Stop trying to bully folks, it won't work here Stan.
Don't really care if you started it...I just know you'll use the issue to deflect and equivocate as you have already done, so I won't engage Totton.
They actually do want help as they can't keep up with all the crap that people post, which is why they have a report button.
Is the issue the OP or not keypurr? If you tell me here it is then you should tell everyone it is, but obviously you want diversions to take away from you lies which you have been perpetuating here and on others threads for years. It wasn't me who said it was OK for Totton to take it off topic and now you accuse me of bullying by telling him that very thing?
You are quite the :loser:
freelight
Eclectic Theosophist
Cornucopia.....
Cornucopia.....
Perhaps the subject has already been exhausted?
An 'image' is always a reflection, representation of some-thing or some-being......it is an out-picturing, expression, mirroring of some original reality. In this case all the scriptures speaking of Jesus being the 'image' of 'God' hold,....even as we can say we are 'images' of 'God', especially when we reflect, represent and express his original nature, being and will. No matter how you spin your 'Christology',...Jesus is still the image of the invisible God, who represents to us the perfection of both human and divine natures, both humanity and divinity. Again, here you can choose whatever school best suits your philosophical proclivities, but the essential 'image' concept remains to include a variety of correlaries. Things beyond the essential concept become an exercise in 'hair-splitting' or comparing apples with oranges....but you still end up just arranging items in the same 'fruit-basket'
God who is universal consciousness,.... projects, reflects and inflects images of all kinds, since all creation is the product of His imagination. This is all creation is,....a reflectivity and continuous evolution of his creative MIND, enlivened by His creative Spirit. One must take 'God' in his most 'essential' and 'universal' reality, and then expand out from there,....never from just a 'particular' image or concept, but to the very 'source' of all images and concepts.
'Christ' as the 'logos' is simply the 'creative thought', 'divine wisdom', 'articulator' of God's creation, since thru the 'logos' all things spring into being and that same 'logos' undergirds, upholds and directs the entire cosmos. - this goes whether you 'personalize' this principle or hold it as an impersonal coordinator, or a combination of both,.....enjoy whatever 'Christology' conveys the most important or significant meanings relative to Jesus mission, serving as the 'Agent' and 'Anointed' of 'God'. Furthermore, the 'Christ' or 'logos' also comes to indwell us, conforming us to God's image, likeness, will. All these allegories, metaphors, figurative impressions relate the essentials of souls having a spiritual experience of being 'in Christ'. The outer symbols reflect the inner movement of the soul and spirit in its journey and transformation in God-consciousness.
pj
Cornucopia.....
Perhaps the subject has already been exhausted?
An 'image' is always a reflection, representation of some-thing or some-being......it is an out-picturing, expression, mirroring of some original reality. In this case all the scriptures speaking of Jesus being the 'image' of 'God' hold,....even as we can say we are 'images' of 'God', especially when we reflect, represent and express his original nature, being and will. No matter how you spin your 'Christology',...Jesus is still the image of the invisible God, who represents to us the perfection of both human and divine natures, both humanity and divinity. Again, here you can choose whatever school best suits your philosophical proclivities, but the essential 'image' concept remains to include a variety of correlaries. Things beyond the essential concept become an exercise in 'hair-splitting' or comparing apples with oranges....but you still end up just arranging items in the same 'fruit-basket'
God who is universal consciousness,.... projects, reflects and inflects images of all kinds, since all creation is the product of His imagination. This is all creation is,....a reflectivity and continuous evolution of his creative MIND, enlivened by His creative Spirit. One must take 'God' in his most 'essential' and 'universal' reality, and then expand out from there,....never from just a 'particular' image or concept, but to the very 'source' of all images and concepts.
'Christ' as the 'logos' is simply the 'creative thought', 'divine wisdom', 'articulator' of God's creation, since thru the 'logos' all things spring into being and that same 'logos' undergirds, upholds and directs the entire cosmos. - this goes whether you 'personalize' this principle or hold it as an impersonal coordinator, or a combination of both,.....enjoy whatever 'Christology' conveys the most important or significant meanings relative to Jesus mission, serving as the 'Agent' and 'Anointed' of 'God'. Furthermore, the 'Christ' or 'logos' also comes to indwell us, conforming us to God's image, likeness, will. All these allegories, metaphors, figurative impressions relate the essentials of souls having a spiritual experience of being 'in Christ'. The outer symbols reflect the inner movement of the soul and spirit in its journey and transformation in God-consciousness.
pj