Knowledge of the Image of God
Christians have an alternative to behaving poorly. There is an alternative to teaching Evolution as our origins.
Colossians 3:9-10 describes how we are to be transformed by the image of God:
“Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.” (Col 3: 9-10, NIV)
What is the image of God?
In sum, image of God is found in the moral positives of the Ten Commandments, in the Beatitudes, in St. John Chaps 1-12, and Colossians 3, in the Book of Deuteronomy, etc..
This link describes the full image of God in Colossians Chapter 3 as moral positives of the Ten Commandments (Beatitudes).
The image of God should be the basis of Christian Education.
The following article describes a strategy to reach U.S. schools with the Gospel by looking at the image of God in our past according to Deut 6:20-25 and Ephesians 6:4.
It applies to all schools in every nation. Prov 14:34
REACHING SCHOOLS WITH THE GOSPEL
This image of Our Creator is same one we find in John’s Gospel Chapters 1-12 and in the Beatitudes, in the moral positives of the Ten Commandments.
Here is a graphical map of the image of God in the Beatitudes, and John’s Gospel 1-12, and in the Decalogue
This article explains the image God from the moral positives of the Decalogue to pastors in Malawi, Africa
The physical laws of the first seven days are aligned with these seven attributes of the image God in the references above (Rom 1:20)
This article describes how we lost sight of the image of God during the first session of Congress in 1790 after the U.S. Constitution was ratified. Colossians 3:25, Palms 82, and Matt 5:43-49 show that impartiality is an attribute of the sons of God who bear His image .
Can you share this image of God with others (Matt 5:14-16)?
