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Psalms 1:1-2 says “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in ethe seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.” These Verses can give one pause. To wit, the first Verse doesn’t start out saying ‘Blessed is the man whom God made in His Image,’ n’est ce pas? Yet that distinction is given in Genesis 1:26 which says, “Then God said, ‘Let us make MAN IN OUR IMAGE, AFTER OUR LIKENESS.’ And to the point of Psalms 1:1-2, God doesn’t merely say in Genesis 1:26 ‘Let us make man.’ Seems to be a glaring inconsistency. Seems there is conceivably a strong suggestion that man was not only created by God. One could ask, ‘What else could have created man, in addition to the man that was created in God’s Image?’ Can we as believers in Him ask the question without being struck down by Him?
To believe in what the Bible says is first and foremost a matter of faith. It is not our place to question what the Bible says in terms of what we believe we know. If we were to spend our time questioning the Passages in the Bible in terms of what we believe to be credible, based on our own knowledge and experience, then the Bible to us becomes a meaningless jumble of sentences somehow strung together. Our faith requires that everything stated in the Bible is a given, leaving us only to question how we are to understand what the Bible says. That is our mission in reading the Bible.
More to the point, 2 Timothy 3:16-17 says, “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that ethe man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.” As an aside, note here again that Verse 17 doesn’t day ‘that the man of God, WHO WAS CREATED IN GOD’S IMAGE...’ this Verse, like Psalms 1:1, doesn’t limit man to the man that was created in God’s Image. This could strongly suggest that there are other forms of man that was not created in God’s Image.
But who or what else cold have created this other man? The Bible doesn’t say that God also created man who WASN’T in His Image. Is the answer hidden in plain sight in the Bible? Keep in mind that when we take the Bible as a matter of faith, then everything in the Bible is presumed to be the truth.
Consider John 1:3 which says, “All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.” Well, “All things” covers a lot of ground. It not only covers living things, it conceivably covers inanimate objects such as rocks, caves, water and the sun. Going back to the living, it conceivably covers evolution. And these are just a few of man’s favorite things in the history of the planet! Next, consider Job 38:4 in which the Lord says to Job, “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?...” Well. God says he laid the foundation of the earth. Could not that foundation have included evolution, causing man, who was not created in God’s image, to have evolved from other living things? Would that not explain cave dwellers such as the Neanderthals, whom one wouldn’t ordinarily conceive of as being in the image of God or His angels, if we consider what Adam and Eve looked like?
Does God have a purpose for everyone who was born? Consider Jeremiah 1:5 in which God says to Jeremiah, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” This is the flag Verse, so to speak, which is used to justify that God has a purpose for everyone who is in the mother’s womb. No mention here of God’s having a purpose for just those who were created in His Image. In fact, does it not say in Galatians 3:28-29, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.”? That pretty much opens things up to a lot of people.
Abraham’s offspring conceivably consists at least in part of people having direct lineage to Adam, who was created in God’s Image. There could also have been people without such a direct lineage, who was mixed in. however lightly. Conceivably, for instance, there is a little of the Neanderthal in many of us. Galatians 3:28-29 makes it plain that no matter who you are, if you are in Christ then you are Abraham’s offspring; and we are all equal in the eyes of Christ. And Jeremiah 1:5 says God has given you a purpose, whether or not you’re descended from Adam. Everyone, from cave dwellers to accountants, who are in Christ, have the same status as Abraham’s offspring. And it seems that God’s Foundation has been laid to include things like evolution for man in addition to the man that God created.
To believe in what the Bible says is first and foremost a matter of faith. It is not our place to question what the Bible says in terms of what we believe we know. If we were to spend our time questioning the Passages in the Bible in terms of what we believe to be credible, based on our own knowledge and experience, then the Bible to us becomes a meaningless jumble of sentences somehow strung together. Our faith requires that everything stated in the Bible is a given, leaving us only to question how we are to understand what the Bible says. That is our mission in reading the Bible.
More to the point, 2 Timothy 3:16-17 says, “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that ethe man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.” As an aside, note here again that Verse 17 doesn’t day ‘that the man of God, WHO WAS CREATED IN GOD’S IMAGE...’ this Verse, like Psalms 1:1, doesn’t limit man to the man that was created in God’s Image. This could strongly suggest that there are other forms of man that was not created in God’s Image.
But who or what else cold have created this other man? The Bible doesn’t say that God also created man who WASN’T in His Image. Is the answer hidden in plain sight in the Bible? Keep in mind that when we take the Bible as a matter of faith, then everything in the Bible is presumed to be the truth.
Consider John 1:3 which says, “All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.” Well, “All things” covers a lot of ground. It not only covers living things, it conceivably covers inanimate objects such as rocks, caves, water and the sun. Going back to the living, it conceivably covers evolution. And these are just a few of man’s favorite things in the history of the planet! Next, consider Job 38:4 in which the Lord says to Job, “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?...” Well. God says he laid the foundation of the earth. Could not that foundation have included evolution, causing man, who was not created in God’s image, to have evolved from other living things? Would that not explain cave dwellers such as the Neanderthals, whom one wouldn’t ordinarily conceive of as being in the image of God or His angels, if we consider what Adam and Eve looked like?
Does God have a purpose for everyone who was born? Consider Jeremiah 1:5 in which God says to Jeremiah, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” This is the flag Verse, so to speak, which is used to justify that God has a purpose for everyone who is in the mother’s womb. No mention here of God’s having a purpose for just those who were created in His Image. In fact, does it not say in Galatians 3:28-29, “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.”? That pretty much opens things up to a lot of people.
Abraham’s offspring conceivably consists at least in part of people having direct lineage to Adam, who was created in God’s Image. There could also have been people without such a direct lineage, who was mixed in. however lightly. Conceivably, for instance, there is a little of the Neanderthal in many of us. Galatians 3:28-29 makes it plain that no matter who you are, if you are in Christ then you are Abraham’s offspring; and we are all equal in the eyes of Christ. And Jeremiah 1:5 says God has given you a purpose, whether or not you’re descended from Adam. Everyone, from cave dwellers to accountants, who are in Christ, have the same status as Abraham’s offspring. And it seems that God’s Foundation has been laid to include things like evolution for man in addition to the man that God created.
