What Does it Mean to be Created in the Image of God?

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Hey Scott, what brings you into the pharmacy? I'm thinking about getting one of the updated COVID -19 vaccines.

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Great Do you know which type of vaccine you'd like? There's more than one. Yep. There are different types of vaccines available

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You can learn more about them at we do vaccines comm if you have questions or want to make an appointment

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Give me a call. What was that website again? We do vaccines comm. Thanks.

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I'll check it out This message was brought to you by Novavax Welcome to The Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications

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This is a ministry of striving for eternity What does it mean to be created in the image of God?

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Some religions have some confusion with this If you look at say

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Mormonism You're going to see that they believe that being made in the image of God means that if you look at man

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You see what God looks like. They would say that God was once a man like you and I Flesh and bones and everything and that we're made in his image.

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In other words He was once a man. We are now men and therefore that's what it means we end up seeing that being a child of God is not something that we can turn to and Say that everybody is a child of God the way

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Mormonism would we see in John 1 12 that it says but to all who receive him who believe in his name

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He gave the right to become a child of God. So some will say that being the image of God is being a child of God Well, no, it's not that either.

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So what does it mean to be made in the image of God? Well, very simply it means that we have certain attributes that animals do not have that are like God God has

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Attributes some that are communicated to man and some that are not You can look at those attributes that are communicated to man

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That's what means to be made in the image of God or created in his image It is the idea that we share certain attributes that animals would not share

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It makes us different than the animals not that we're God But that we have certain attributes they don't and we do this podcast is part of the striving for eternity

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Ministry for more content or to request a speaker or seminar to your church go to Simon for eternity org

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Everybody's choosy about something. It might be your favorite snack two scoops of rocky road, please your style

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Those earrings look amazing on you or the things you like to do with your best friend

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You can be choosy when it comes to getting a kovat 19 vaccine, too If you're thinking about getting an updated vaccine, there's more than one type available