The other night my wife and I watched the movie "My Sister's Keeper." Also, on a regular basis we watch extreme home makeover on Sunday evenings. What does the movie and the tv show have in common? They make no sense unless Genesis is correct and God created man in his image. A host of movies and shows could be added to the list. Any book, show or movie that dignifies mankind or considers mankind to be valuable, declares the truth of The Imago Dei (image of God).
When anyone has their emotions stirred up watching a family get a new house, they testify to themselves that they are watching something more than a product of an impersonal, directionless universe receiving something from other products of an impersonal directionless universe. That includes many Eastern religions that just believe in an impersonal force. A force, even a supernatural force, cannot have a direction because direction and purpose only come from a mind i.e. something personal. Furthermore, a force cannot bestow dignity on mankind no more than a powerful river could.
I would also contend that the emotional stirrings testify to something more than products of a universe formed and governed (I use that word loosely) by a multitude of gods who often times do not agree with each other and therefore are often seeking after very different purposes or goals.
I am thankful that most of the world's population assigns some kind of dignity to mankind, but I am struck that such dignity is often given without even an eye blinks worth of wonder where that dignity comes from. The Bible is right, man will suppress the truth of God until God rips out that heart of stone and puts in a heart of flesh.
Things to consider from the Word of God.
The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the valley; [fn] it was full of bones.
And he led me around among them, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley, and behold, they were very dry.
And he said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" And I answered, "O Lord God , you know."
Then he said to me, "Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord .
"Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath [fn] to enter you, and you shall live.
"And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live, and you shall know that I am the Lord ."
Ezekiel 37:1-6
Then God said, "Let us make man [fn] in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
Genesis 1:26-28
Thursday, December 3, 2009
The Media has Spoken, Man is Made in the Image of God
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May be i am in not a very good moment in my life but what is God? i use to believe that he give good thinks to the good person but I try to do good thinks and always i receive bullshit
Homero:
I'd like to reply to your comment.
We all have difficult times in our lives; I'm sorry to hear that you are going through such a time right now. Know that you have been prayed for today.
As to your comment about trying to do good and hoping (expecting?) God to reward the good person, I would offer this word from Scripture:
Colossians 3:12-17:
"Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him."
You'll see that we are called to behave a certain way (to "do good") - but Saint Paul never says "Do this with the expectation of receiving any reward." He simply says "Live your life this way."
In fact, Paul says just the opposite - that our lives are going to be filled with difficulties:
2 Corinthians 4:8-11
"We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh."
Paul - and others - are able to live with joy IN SPITE OF these earthly challenges and afflictions because of our personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
I hope this helps; feel free to write more!
I never hope nothing about my actions i learn that a long time a go.
I aprecite a lot your help i read a the bible a lpong time ago maybe that was a mistake (stop Reading) but my live have a grate chage i lost a lo of thing in that moment and i hate God now i understand he wasn't the guilty.
Now i have nothing hope, love o expectatives, the only thinck i can do is stand up and conitiue figthing and waitng the end of this Can't Rain all the time.
thanks a lot
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