How are we made in the Image of God?

[Arial]

I'm not misunderstanding.
The Bible is clear from beginning to end that man is to make the choice of whom he will serve.
And that choice is crucial to salvation because there ain't gonna be no YHWH deniers in the body of Christ.
That's what I did.
I made my own conscious choice to serve YHWH over any other, and I know that I can choose to reject Him and serve another if I were to decide He was no longer good enough to be my master.

That may be what you believe, but you are still misunderstanding and misrepresenting Cal/Ref when you say it teaches that man does not have the ability to make choices.

 

[Josheb]

I'm not misunderstanding.
The Bible is clear from beginning to end that man is to make the choice of whom he will serve.

Good morning everyone,

@Tambora, Please provide a verse stating man is to make a choice of whom he will serve. Before you do so, let me save you some time. You cannot use any verse in which God offers a choice to people already living within a covenant relationship God has previously established. Those people are freed to choose by the covenant condition. Don't pick just any verse that mentions choice (like Joshua 24:15). Show me the verse stating those outside God's covenant choose who they serve.

That's what I did. I made my own conscious choice to serve YHWH over any other...

Hmmm...

1. What makes you think your personal experience is true?
2. Do you think God was at work within you to make that choice?
3. Do you think it is wise for any person to measure scripture by their own anecdotal experience?

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...and I know that I can choose to reject Him and serve another if I were to decide He was no longer good enough to be my master.

Not according to scripture.

God is master of ALL. The question is not who or what will be served (very foolish way to word the matter), but under what conditions that service will occur. Will it occur as an adopted daughter of The Most High God or a minion? In the end everyone bends the knee to Christ to God's glory.

Philippians 2:5-11
5 Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. 8 Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Some will do so with Jesus as both Lord and Savior, others will do so with Jesus only as Lord. Many, many people will be thrown into the fiery lake. They will NOT be asked if they want that to happen. There will be no choice in the matter.


So please show me the verse that states "man is to make a choice of whom he will serve."

 

[Josheb]

One of my explanations of mankind being an "image" of God is because man has the ability to make choices.

Dogs have the ability to make choices. There is nothing uniquely divine in that ability.

 

[Josheb]

Freewill deniers don't like that.

???

1. Who is it that denies the existence of freewill?
2. What is the difference between freewill and free will?
3. Can you show me a verse using the phrase "free will"? (that's two separate words, not one single word)

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[prism]

I don't hold to "inherited sin".
Ezekiel chapter 18 is against it:

Ezekiel 18​

(1) The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,​

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(20) The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.​

I am thankful that even though Adam's was imputed to mankind, Christ bore the iniquity of us all. (Romans 5:19, 1Peter 2:24)

 

[Eleanor]

I don't hold to "inherited sin".
Ezekiel chapter 18 is against it:

Ezekiel 18​

(1) The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying,​

(20) The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.​

Correct. . .sin is not inherited, it is imputed (Ro 5:14-16, 17, 18-19),
which is the pattern (Ro 5:14) for the righteousness of Christ being imputed (Ro 5:18-19, 1:17, 3:21, 4:5-8, Php 3:9).