Images... Satan or God?

There’s an interesting thing that occurs in the Genesis account of creation. After creating every kind of life on earth God decides to create something “in his own image”… man… he made them male and female. Genesis 1:28

Now… I’m not sure I understand everything about God creating man in his own image and all that implies, but what I do understand is that God gave man dominion over all the other life on this planet earth. God gave man responsibility over the animal world.

Adam and Eve were like God because God had dominion over his whole creation and he shared that power with Adam and Eve.

There’s another way that Adam and Eve were like God. In Genesis 2:24 God said that Adam and Eve would become “one flesh”.

The account in Ephesians 5:22-33, when comparing the relationship between Jesus and the church with the relationship between a husband and a wife, states that “the two shall become one flesh” and that it was a “great mystery”.

Some say man and woman become one flesh just by engaging in sex.

Sorry… that’s not a great mystery.

In my opinion, becoming one flesh with a woman is progressive and involves the close relationship that comes with experiencing life together with all its successes and failures.

And following the recipe for becoming “one flesh” found in Ephesians through love and subjection to each other.

Adam and Eve were created in the image of God because their becoming “one flesh together” mimicked the spiritual oneness that we see in the relationship between God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.

Here’s a question… can a man and woman living with each other in a sexual relationship without having made vows to each other or vows to God and having not invited God into their relationship be of “one flesh”?

Let me answer this question with another question… can a Bull and a Cow be “one flesh”?

Do you want to be like cattle or do you want to be like God? Follow God’s plan and you can reap the full benefits of being made in his image rather than following and becoming the image of Satan.

Get married and quit sinning