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There is no man in the garden. We are on the point of only creating this man. Somewhere between God saying 'Let's make him in our image' and actually creating the man. Do you get this?In the garden, God fellowshipped with man; through the garden, He was glorified on the earth. In the kingdom, which includes the church, God again fellowships with man; through the kingdom, He again is glorified on the earth.Okay, let's put the Jews aside for a while. I repeat once again - what does 'created in God's image' mean according to your view? Can you answer my question directly and using only one statement?After all the adulteries of the faithless one, Israel, God finally cut her loose (Jer 3:8).I think that 'in God's image' means the ability to create and having mind.All through the Old Testament, after the Garden of Eden, when the "holy people" spent their time engaged in debauchery, drunkenness, incest, violence, adultery, the secret arts, and all the rest - all through their history plagued with the fruits of idolatry, ultimately resulting in their divorce from God - do you think they were bearing God's image?How God's image depends on grace? What does 'created in God's image' mean then, according to your view?he fell from grace, man bore God's image. Since reconciliation on the Cross, man bears His image again
You are not pleased with 'holy people' of the past. Okay. Are there 'holy people' now who dont engage in all those sins you mentioned?
Here's a bit of history for you on the Jewish Age:
Though a valiant effort on the part of the chosen, the Age of the Law and the Prophets accounted for nothing. Priests sacrificed animal after animal on the altar, the blood of each availing little more than temporary absolution. Prophets uttered prophecy after prophecy purportedly from God, the veracity of each by law under scrutiny. For her generations of this repetition and uncertainty, Israel habitually wandered, and so received her certificate of divorce from God in the eighth century BC when Assyria conquered her. God, however, refused to forget His people, and Cyrus the Great, the Persian who defeated Babylon, commissioned the exiles to return to Judah and Benjamin in the southern territory of Judea to restore their temple and priestly order. But then Judea would receive her divorce certificate in the first century AD when Rome would conquer her, and the nation would never return to her first love; Israel would utterly and forever forfeit any matrimonial connection to her Creator.
The holy people were idolatrous, adulterous sinners, not unlike their pagan neighbors. A new holy people - the Christians - would be the ones to bear fruit for God and inherit the kingdom (Mt 21:43). The holy people now do not worship idols. They bear God's image.