Creation in Plan and in Progress; Being an Essay on the First Chapter of Genesis (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE CREATION OF MAN IN THE IMAGE OF GOD. And God said, Let us make man according to our image and similitude. These words, taken in conformity with the ordinary use of language, certainly express that more than one person had part in the creation of man, ?that the Creator did not act alone, but took counsel, in this work. Many ages after this sentence was written the Holy Spirit revealed to the Apostle John, that the Word was with God in the beginning, and was God: all things were made through Him, and without Him was not any thing made that was made (Joh. i.). The Apostle Paul also, taught by the same Spirit, wrote respecting the Son, that He is the image of the invisible God, and that all things were made through Him and unto Him (Col. i. 15, 16). These passages explain not only why it is said let us make man, but also why it is added in our image, the Son, who took the form of man, being the image of the invisible God1. It has been already noticed (p. 38), that the account 1 The occurrence in the earliest pages of the Bible of this and other passages (as that in Gen. iii. 15), which did not receive full explanations till the Apostolic times, shews that the Bible differs from all other books in the respect, that although the various parts were written in ages widely distant, one Mind and one Wisdom pervade the whole. Being different in this respect, its interpretation must be different from that of all other books. of every creative act is preceded by a statement of what God said. When it is considered that this occurs in a recital of the original scheme of the creation, it will be seen that what is thus spoken, is spoken by the Eternal Word. The words let us make, prove that He was with God the Creator from the beginning. And as He that spea...