In His Image

An interesting tidbit..

Genesis 1:26 starts with the words, "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:"

Genesis 1:27 says, "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."

Two things to note:

#1 - The Trinity of God shows up here. God isn't talking to himself the way a busy mother talks to herself, because she has no other intelligent conversation. God was talking to God. The Bible tells us Jesus Christ is the Word, and that the Word was with God in the beginning of time. Jesus Christ was there, present in the very first garden :) 

#2 - God created man in his likeness, which is amazing to me. The thought of being face to face with my Lord one day fills me with such hope, but we know through scripture that no man hath seen God's face - our sinful nature and fleshly bodies can't handle that somehow - God knows that. 

This leads me to go on to chapter 5 of Genesis. Chapter 5 starts out with the generations of Adam (unless you are a genealogy buff and just feed off this stuff, it can be dry reading sometimes) but I noticed something that I have seen many times, but just didn't think about. In verse 3, Adam's genealogy starts not with Cain, or Abel, since one is dead and the other banished, but with Seth. This is also the only other time I have read (yet) where it uses the same phrase 'after his image'. Remember - Adam was still created in God's image. It never said that Cain nor Abel were created after Adam's image, even when it does talk about their birth in chapter 4. But God makes a point in verse 3 to day, "And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:"

Why skip to the third birth to make this point of saying that Seth was in Adam's own likeness and image, therefore making him in God's own likeness and image? 

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