God's image


 



『God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.』(Genesis 1:27) The image of God is the spirit. The image of God is not the state of mind, but the spirit is the light of God that God give to living soul. Adam was born of the state of living soul in the world. The spirit was dead. So, God put Adam in the Garden of Eden and changed the dead spirit to the living spirit. The Garden of Eden represents the kingdom of God. But Eve was born in the Garden of Eden.
The image(spirit) of God were dead when human beings are born in the world already. The spirit was trapped in soil because of the crime in the kingdom of God, so the spirit was dead. The fresh must be reborn as a spiritual body in order to save the spirit while the body is still alive. The spiritual body is one as the same angel in the kingdom of God. The flesh received from the parents must die with Jesus on the cross to be reborn as a spiritual body. The spirit can live only when the fresh are dead.

God's image is not a state of mind. You can not make clean or alive the dead spirit by the effort. We must wear the spiritual body that God give.『It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.』(1 Corinthians 15:44) God gives spiritual clothes to those who repent and return. The repentance is the death of the mind to die with Jesus.『For he that is dead is freed from sin.』(Romans 6:7)


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