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"Our Amazing Spaceship Earth"
Thank you for The Good News magazine with the beautiful picture of a galaxy and the earth with the valuable writing about the meaning of life and the message of God. And thank you again for sending me the interesting booklets The Road to Eternal Life and What Is Your Destiny?
-F.H., Hungary
I am enjoying your publications, but sometimes I have to respond to some of the statements made by your writers. In your article "Our Amazing Spaceship Earth" (which is very good and informative), you quoted Genesis 1:26 in which God says, "Let us make man in Our image, according to our likeness." This verse clearly states that man, Adam and Eve, were created in the image of God. Later Genesis 5:3 tells us that Adam "became the father of a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth." After the sin of Adam, man was not created in the image of God, but in the image of fallen man. Too many people think that they were created in the image of God, when in fact they are in the image of their earthly father Adam.
-B.W., Internet
Consider three other scriptural passages. First Genesis 9:6: "Whoever sheds man's blood, by man his blood shall be shed; for in the image of God He made man." James 3:9 tells us that "with it [the tongue] we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude ["likeness," New International Version] of God." Finally Paul explains that "we are the offspring of God" (Acts 17:29). These passages show that although our human behavior has fallen far short of the righteousness of our Creator, we are still made in His image. Our free booklet Who Is God? contains a chapter explaining much more about this subject.
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