Is this what it means made in God's image?

This may be part of being made in God's image, but I believe it's more complex than just that.

JohnB445 said:

God is Trinity.

Man is 3 in 1?
Body
Soul
Spirit
But we are still one person.

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Sometimes keeping it simple gives us the best interpretation.
We read of God's finger, hands, feet, eyes, mouth and etc.
It seems we are anatomically designed in the image of God.

JohnB445 said:

Our attributes? Intellegence, Communication, Morality

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I certainly think these would be included in His image, along with spiritual awareness and awareness of time. Some physical attributes may be included, but we share most of these with other mammals.

JohnB445 said:

God is Trinity.

Man is 3 in 1?
Body
Soul
Spirit
But we are still one person.

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I could be wrong.......
but I suspect that the name "Azazel" in Leviticus 16:10 in the original Hebrew implies that we Christians, the descendants of Adam and Eve........ were sent to the earth to even bring fallen angels to repentance but first we have to develop empathy and a great deal of humility for our own sins.

"but the goat on which the lot fell for Aza'zel shall be presented alive before the LORD to make atonement over it, that it may be sent away into the wilderness to Aza'zel."(Leviticus 16:10 RSV)

1Corinthians 6:3

"Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?"

I believe that the Ancient of Days the Father loves the lost...... far, far, far, far more than we tend to imagine.... and may be planning on dividing the kingdom of Satan and causing it to fall.

Yom Kippur/The Rapture connection?!

In a nutshell I have came to strongly suspect that Azazel is the fallen angel who will be somewhat like General Abner who brought the ten tribes over to King David or to Rav Shaul/Paul who repented of persecuting Christians and followers of God.

I suspect that when the fallen angel Azazel returns to the God of Abraham with his whole heart...when Yom Kippur is completely fulfilled....then a major step will have been taken toward the ushering in of a truly new era of worldwide peace where even the eating habits of wild animals like lions will be altered!

Matthew 12
"And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand?"

The goat for Azazel...... is a type of Barabbas / Bar Abbas..... who is a type of all Christians.... and one of our missions is to begin to consider our sins... .even our pride and lukewarm attitude.... as a serious sin....... so we can look at ourselves as notable prisoners like Bar Abbas / Barabbas who was guilty of murder and sedition.

JohnB445 said:

Our attributes? Intellegence, Communication, Morality

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That's what I think it means, along with self-awareness

I think it's quite hard to say.

Clearly we're not made physically like God because God isn't bound by space-time (due to existing before the creation of the universe billions of years ago) but rather God can take a form of a man or humanoid figure such as Christ in the Old and New testament.

I also believe that the case for morality and self-awareness falls apart to with modern research. Though I agree that humans are more deeper understanding of morality, our primates and other animals clear show some forms of right and wrong (though incredibly limited and to my own knowledge only within their own species).

Selection of tool diameter by New Caledonian crows Corvus moneduloides. - PubMed - NCBI shows that animals I smart enough to use tools for a situation.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248481800164 shows that some primates have self-awareness.

In addition only humans are said to be in the image of God Psalm 17:15 for example.
Angels are never mentioned to be in the image of God despite knowing right from wrong and being smart creatures. Thus I can't see the argument for morality or intelligence.

The word soul "nephesh" is used for humans in Genesis 2:7 and Genesis 1:20 for animals.

The word for spirit "neshamah" ( I think) is used for both humans and animals in Genesis 7:22.

The word for body is "basar" and is used for humans in Genesis 9:15 and animals repeatedly in the first part of Genesis 41.

Furthermore we were created on the same day as animals during the Genesis account of creation (though of course it didn't happen over six literal days). We were not given a separate day.



Personally, I would say that the image of God would probably mean our role given to us by God. To be stewards and representative on him in this physical universe.

When Abraham was chosen to be God's representative on Earth, he wasn't created but given the role and when the nations of Judah and Israel became sinful and forgot the Lord, he took away his relationship with them. They weren't created or destroyed as such by the roles were.

I have no idea what to believe about trinity. I do however believe that perhaps we can understand trinity by seeing how we have a body, soul and spirit. Thats a trinity yet we are one.