Made in God's Image?

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Made in God's Image? Christanon 05/06/18 (Sun) 17:59:26 f4a9c1 No.644076

Genesis 1:26

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Would it be a jump of logic to say that we were made in pre-incarnate Christ's image? What about the "angel" that appeared to Jacob? Was that also per-incarnate Christ?

What about the man in Daniel 2? In Revelation, it makes it sound like the Man in his dream was Christ.

Christanon 05/06/18 (Sun) 18:48:50 b0e630 No.644098

>Would it be a jump of logic to say that we were made in pre-incarnate Christ's image?

It is pious and almost certain tradition with backing of some great saints that First Adam and First Eve were created in form of Second Adam and Second Eve. That's why when you look at icons of Paradise or Harrowing of Hell you see Adam that looks like Christ. (And some even say that Satan mistaken our Foreparents for Christ and his Mother and that's why he attacked them so soon)

> What about the "angel" that appeared to Jacob? Was that also per-incarnate Christ?

That was universal belief of Church (that started to somewhat fade in the west due the Augustine influence, but it never vanished: see Roman Canon) that almost all times when "Angel of the LORD" appered it was pre-inacrnate Christ. You can almost clearly see it in Hebrews 1.

>What about the man in Daniel 2? In Revelation, it makes it sound like the Man in his dream was Christ.

Daniel is full of Davidic imagery. And of course you will see Christ there. But not in Daniel 2 you can see Him (or rather Mystical Him - as a Head and a Body of Church) in form of Rock from Heaven but nothing else.

Christanon 05/07/18 (Mon) 05:12:07 8a2f41 No.644239

We are made in the image of the Trinity as St. Augustine says as well. One analogy (and no analogy is perfect especially when coming to the Trinity since full understanding of the Trinity is beyond human understanding) is that the Father is like your memory, the Son is your word and the Holy Spirit is your will.

Right now you are just interacting with my words, as I am with you, but I wouldn't say that I'm not interacting with you. The word of God is fully God, and my words (ideally) fully represent me.

Similarly if a person loses their memories, they lose what it is to be them, even though they might still have words. An example of course is dementia.

This also carries on when you interact with an action of someone. A person who cannot act is not themselves either anymore, but interacting with their actions is interacting with them.

A slightly different organization or mapping of this would be the Father as being your subconscious mind and the Son as your conscious mind. The Logos or the Son is often called as the Mind of God, but it seems to be the rational conscious mind of God. The invisible unknowable God without the Word is like our subconscious. We ourselves can only know our mind through thinking words, through literal words in our mind but also our conscious mind.

Anyways it has been understood by many Saints going back to St. Augustine, that man was created in the image of the Trinity, and this is an example of how it can be so.