Made in His image, would be Christ. The word "our" is you.. I'm trying to say in this post that in God's image means, Christ. , and the "Our" image , is you. Image means :
Hebrew:
tseh'-lem
from an unused root meaning to shade; a phantom, i.e. (figuratively) illusion, resemblance; hence, a representative figure, especially an idol:--image, vain shew.
Phantom means, just like, in appearance, for the most part. So you looked, like you did there. Christ was the express image, of God, and I think we are all familiar by now, with all those scriptures about Christ and God.
As far as you are concerned. Remember God said " Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated. God knew Esau when he was with God, before Earth .
Remember what God said to Jeremiah ? ? ?
Jeremiah 1:5
(KJV)
5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Before, before before. So you where with God:
" To be absent from the body is to be present with the LORD.( 2 Corinthians 5 : 8 )
This is the " our " , your image, Our image, in Gen 1:
Genesis 1:26
King James Version (KJV)
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
One of the our there, is you.
The other is The Word made Flesh :
Hebrews 1:3
(KJV)
3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:
Hebrews 2:14
14 Forasmuch ( in light of the fact ) then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also himself likewise took part of the same; "that through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;"
Philippians 2 :
5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
It follows God's nature that, kind after their own kind is produced. So in light of these scriptures, we should still make sure, that since God did create us from the start, we should not think of God as some force out in space. but that we are created in His image only in the sense that He is, The Heavenly Father, and He created us. and we should work to be His children in the end. Right ?
But i dont mean to take that away from the verses i posted. those should probably be kept in their context.
Jeremiah 1:5
5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
( naturally, i dont expect, everyone to agree with me. )
