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was not written to argue with atheist about God existence.
It is a royal announcement to this concerning its Sovereign ruler.
It not only announces God’s existence but it articulates clearly why we exist.
not only tells us how everything was created but why it was created.
Why do I exist is the most prevalent philosophical question in the history of humanity.
It’s as old as The Garden of Eden.
It’s asked by everyone.
Sometimes we may feel like the man who said, “I’ve got a clock that tells me when to get up--but some days I need one to tell me why.”
Elizabeth Gilbert in 2006 published her memoir Eat Pray Love, “One woman’s search for everything across Italy, India and Indonesia.”
The book chronicles her journey to find the meaning of life, Gilbert finds that only one thing ultimately matters: yourself.
Atheism in not the belief in nothing but anything but God.
Author G.K. Chesterton says, “When [you] abandon belief in the Creator, people do not begin to believe in nothing.
They begin to believe in anything.”
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If man was made through random chance how can he know that his randomness has purpose.
Man does not have to be informed that he has purpose because this is intrinsic.
This intrinsic knowledge is given to him by his Creator naturally and through the natural world.
He knows this naturally because his creator has placed this knowledge within him
Ecclesiastes and seeks his purpose for existing because he was created by His creator with purpose.
Man looks at creation and sees purpose because he sees design.
He knows this by his observance of the natural world in which he lives
Romans 1:and seeks his purpose for existing because he was created by His creator with purpose.
Man looks at creation and sees purpose because he sees design.
Man looks at creation and sees design, order, and purpose.
He ask himself; “how can I live in such a purposeful world and not have purpose”.
No other portion of Scripture suffers more intense and consistent attacks than .
Why? you might ask.
It carries within in its words the answer to every question of life.
Today’s text and this week’s memory verse reveals to us the answer to life’s most asked question, Why am I here?
THE PURPOSE OF MAN
Theologians have long debated what exactly is meant by the "image of God" and there are a number of elements that are contained in that description.
Let me simplify its meaning through deduction.
There are attributes that are true of God which are not true of human beings.
In those attributes we are clearly not in his image.
These are the attributes of God that theologians call incommunicable.
This simply means he has not communicated them to anybody else.
For instance, his omnipotence.
God is all-powerful—we are not.
After discovering how to clone humans, two scientists challenged God:
"We don't need you anymore," they said.
"We can make life by ourselves now."
"Okay," God replied, "let's have a man-making contest."
"All right," said the scientists.
"We'll do it like you did in the beginning."
Then they reached down to grab a handful of dirt to begin to form a man.
Then they heard God's voice from heaven: "Hold it—get your own dirt!"
He is omnipresent which means he is in all places at all times.
He is omniscient which means he knows everything there is to know.
We don't.
God is immutable which means he does not change.
God is immutable.
That means he does not change.
We do change.
We grow older and hopefully we grow wiser.
But God is immutable.
God is eternal.
That means he has no beginning; He has no end.
We of course have a beginning.
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So there are clearly attributes that belong to God, which do not belong to human beings, and in those areas we are evidently not created in his image and likeness.
However, there are attributes true of God, which are intended to be true of human beings, and these are his communicable attributes—ones that he communicated to human beings.
For instance, "God is love," says Scripture, and human beings are designed to be loving.
God is just and we are intended to act justly.
God is merciful; we are intended to be merciful.
God is kind and we are intended to be kind.
We were created to be a physical and visible images of the character of an invisible God.
Image means you look at an image and you are reminded of the real thing.
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The purpose of man is to reflect and represent God in this world.
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Represent = Marble
The term “image” (ṣelem) is used in the Old Testament for actual forms and shapes of idols.
In Ancient cultural kings would have statues of themselves carved out of marble and place throughout their kingdom as a revelation of who they were.
Images are created to image.
We are made in His image unlike all the other animals.
Whatever in his image means in detail, this it means clearly: God is the reality and we are the image.
Images are created to set forth the reality.
A statue is not the person but a representation of that person.
Why did God create man?
To show God!
He created little images so that they would talk, act, and feel in a way that reveals God.
He wants people to look at the way you behave, the way you think, the way you feel, and say, “God must be great, God must be real.”
This is your reason for existence.
God didn’t create you as an end in yourself.
He’s the end, you’re the means.
Bored Christians make really bad images.
God is not unhappy about himself.
He is infinitely excited about his own glory.
We are made in the likeness of God to exhibit his presence on earth.
Reflect = Mirror
You were made not to be the original, but to reflect the original.
Being created in God’s image means to reflect God’s image.
How do you accurately reflect something?
Think of a mirror.
How can I get a mirror to reflect the sun?
You face the mirror toward the sun. .
The Bible says God will make His face shine upon us
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Why?
So we can reflect Him! Look at .
We cannot elaborate on this amazing passage fully here, but Paul says before we know Christ, it is like there is veil over our hearts.
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