Is There a Mother in Heaven? Part 5 of 10—Are We a Reflection of God’s Nature?

If the man Adam looked like God in form, and if man was modeled after God’s own being, to be a shadow of himself, then surely the reverse is also true: God, in form, looks like the man he created after his own image. Stephen’s pre-death experience would certainly lend credence to this idea (see Acts 7:55-56).

The same idea may be implied in the relationship between our asserted Mother in heaven and the woman.

In regards to the man, the same language used in Genesis 1:26-27 was used later when Adam was compared with his son Seth:

“This is the book of the generations of Adam.
“In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
“And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth”. (Genesis 5:1-3; emphasis mine.)

And yes, the Hebrew words for image and likeness here are the same as in Genesis 1:26-27.

So, by this we can see that Seth was a perfect model or reflection of his father in form in the same way that Adam was a perfect model or reflection of God, his creator. The wording is identical.

The intention could not be made more clear. Okay, maybe it could be made more clear, but in this instance it should be clear enough.

I like the way “The Message” renders Genesis 1:26: “Let us make human beings in our image, make them reflecting our nature.”

This is even more succinct than what is in the King James Version. Man not only looks like God because he was modeled after him, but he has been created to reflect the very nature of God. True, man is only a reflection or shadow of that nature, an imperfect one, to be sure.

God’s creation of man and woman is perfect, but man and woman’s earthly nature is imperfect. But that’s why we have God’s word: to help us perfect that reflection or shadow, that we might be filled with light (see Matthew 6:22) and become perfect in Jesus Christ.

“Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.” (Matthew 5:48.)

“[Christ] Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.” (Colossians 1:28.)