6/01/2007

Exact Imprint of God

Gen 1:26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness"

Heb 1:3 He [God's Son] is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature

There is such a huge difference between man (us) and the Son of God. We are made in the image of God, but we are never told how good that image is. Are we an image like a fine sculpture or more like a 3-year-old's drawing? Or maybe even a modern art painting where you really have to use your imagination to call it an image of something? I would lean more toward a fine painting--one where you can tell what it's supposed to be--maybe as fine as the Mona Lisa. We are a painting with brush strokes, colors that don't quite reflect the real thing, only show from the shoulders up, shading that isn't exactly true to life.

Jesus, however, is an "exact imprint." He is closer to the real thing than a photograph at a billion mega pixels. There isn't a single subtlety of God's that is missed on the Son. His colors are true and his shading is perfect. Every hair is perfectly defined and perfectly accurate.

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