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What is the difference between “image” and “likeness”?
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What does 'image' and 'likeness' mean in Hebrew?
What does the Bible say about 'image' and 'likeness'?
We are stamped with God's ownership. Therefore we should not attempt to find any difference between these two terms. The Bible says that man was made in the image and likeness of God. Then God said, Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them.
Aug 11, 2020 · Likeness relates more to the visual appearance. The immediate context of image and likeness found in Genesis 1:26 relates to man's rule over the creatures in the earth, sky, and sea. Therefore, Man's designated role in creation is to function as God's images - God's ruling representatives on earth.
- The word image in the Hebrew בצלמנו in v26 speaks of being a representative form , like a shadow. It takes on the form of the original and is in...
- My understanding of the difference is the following: Image of God: These are the parts that make up a human being that is different from any other...
- In the Insight on the Scriptures (published by the Watchtower Society), the article on the word Image says the following: Whereas references to...
- What's the difference between image and likeness? As Nihil Sine Deo discussed, image and likeness are similar but carry slightly different connotat...
- The Hebrew meaning of Our Image & Likeness to Elohim: In Bereishit (Genesis) 1:26, we read "In Our Image, after Our Likeness" (בְּצַלְמֵ֖נוּ כִּדְמ...
- I would try to exegete this with regard to St. Maximos distinction between "image" for man as genera, ie. ousia and "likeness" for man as specifica...
- I find the image/likeness comments quite fascinating, and my view is that God created us in his image, and the possibility of his likeness. Meaning...
- Image - comparable to the pre-incarnate Christ found in the Old Testament (Christophany as in the Lord that appeared to Abraham just before the de...
- The words image and likeness are not synonymous terms as theologians who deny God has form against the Scriptures insist. The image has to do with...
Two New Testament verses illustrate how we can understand the difference between "likeness" and "image." The apostle Paul writes in Philippians 2:7 that Christ came "in the likeness of men," or in other words, in human form. Thus, likeness conveys the sense of mankind looking like God; humans are essentially God-like in bodily shape. God ...
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One reason why “image” should be distinguished from “likeness” is because, as most exegetes now believe, “image of God” has to do with representation. In Genesis 1, it means that humans are symbols of God. It means they represent God and to his world like ambassadors or viceroys (see Jensen). This means that the “likeness” between God and humans is...
A more profound reason for distinguishing image and likeness as concepts is that these two ideas correspond to two aspects of Christ’s identity. The New Testament presents Christ in two registers: First, Jesus is God’s eternal Son, stamp, radiance, Word, image, wisdom and form (Heb 1:1-3; John 1:1; Col 1:15; Col 2:3; Phil 2:6). His identity here co...
Our story – the human story – took a very different path. Although we were made in God’s image to rule over his creation we failed to represent him or obey his words. Under the tutelage of Satan we turned God-likeness into an idol (Gen 3:5) – and came to think of ourselves as rivals to God. These two failures still dog us at every turn. They have p...
Christ also does something for God. In Hebrews 2:10 we read that ” it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, [i.e. God] in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering.” Why should it be fitting for God that Jesus should be perfected through suffering? And what does “perfect”...
The Church Fathers made a great deal of the incarnation, and the fact that it is Christ the eternal Image who perfects humans as images of God. They were right to get excited about that. But the New Testament reminds us that the greatest work of the eternal Image is his work on the cross. Here it is that he both reveals what humanity should be and ...
Mar 3, 2024 · I understand it like this: image is like a robot that looks (in appearance) like its creator and likeness is the way the robot moves and speaks that is similar to its creator. Is the fact that Genesis 1:27 says man is created in God's likeness and Genesis 5:1 that says man is created in God's image contradictory?
Mar 25, 2023 · Theologians and scholars have debated the meaning and relationship between the words "image" and "likeness." Interpretations have swung between two extremes: that the body is all that bears the image and likeness of God, to the soul alone bearing the image and likeness of God. Among the explanations offered 20 are these:
The subject is the creation of man in the image of God. There are two ways of looking at it: (1) in its entirety, as we look at the white light; and (2) in its component parts, as we see the light in a rainbow. Then we have— I. The Image of God in itself. 1. Image and Likeness are not distinct. 2.
