Originally Posted by Anthony
Originally Posted by Pilgrim
Where you have gotten this erroneous idea that the image of God is to be restricted ONLY to man's moral attributes only you know
Where did i say this sir ? point this post out to us where i said that the image of God is to be restricted only to the ideal of mans moral attributes..

This is merely your interpretation of things..
It's what you have been insisting upon from the start and which you repeat below by quoting from Eph 4:24. Is this some sort of game you are playing?

Originally Posted by Anthony
Man has no image of God while he is unregenerated..The image of God man had in the beginning was patterend after Jesus christ, The GodMan Mediator..heb 1:

3Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person?, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:
Huh? What does Heb 1:3 have to do with the image of God which man was created with? Do you think that just because the word "image" appears in the text you can freely jerk it out of its context and make it mean something totally foreign to it? Have you no respect for the INSPIRATION of holy writ? You keep asserting these unsubstantiated ideas without any biblical support.

Originally Posted by Anthony
you are sadly mistaken to believe that the image of God is merely a physical appearance as the reprobate have or the unregenerated..do you really believe that, physical appearance alone is what consitiuted man being made in the image and likeness of God ? Thats it ?
Once again you have failed to READ what I and others have written. I have constantly maintained that the "imago dei" is multi-faceted and that some of that image was totally lost in the Fall and the remainder was horribly distorted. Yet, the image in toto was not lost else man would cease to be man. I have offered you quotes from prof. Berkhof whose view represents that of all historic Reformed Protestantism, biblical support, e.g., Isa 9:6 and many other texts. How about interacting with the Scriptures exegetically instead of your constant weightless prooftexting?

Ante up here sir or fold. grin

In His grace,

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