Of God and Man

Of God and Man

“Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” 
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” 
                      Genesis 1:26,27.
Man was created not in the physical likeness of God because God is spirit and doesn’t have a physical body as such. But man was made in the psychological, emotional and spiritual likeness of God.
Man’s body is only temporary the moment he is born his body is destined to return to dust.
However that spark inside the body. The soul that is man. The thing that separates him from the animals and gives him self awareness lives on through eternity.
Martin Luther King Jr. in one of his famous speeches said,
“We thank thee, O God, for the spiritual nature of man. We are in nature but we live above nature.”
Man’s original purpose was to live on forever and have fellowship with God. However God gave man a free will to choose what he wants to do.
 God through the Bible shows man how he can live eternally with God. It has been described as a narrow way and it is certainly the only way.
Sadly some say there are many ways to God and eternal life. While others deny there is a God. That is there choice.
I as a Christian look at it this way. If those who deny there is a God are right and if those who say there are many ways to heaven are right, I have nothing to fear.
However if I am right and I am certain I am, then they have a lot to fear.
Jesus said,
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.  
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.  
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.” 
                               John 3:16-18.
Think about it.