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Here is a reflection on Genesis 1:27, from a Commentary-by-Contributors site:
On the ceiling of the Sistine chapel in Rome there are the tremendous frescoes by Michelangelo. Among them is that magnificent picture of the creation of man. God is reaching out His finger and man, having just been created, reaches to Him as well. But their fingers do not touch. This is true Christian insight. Man is not an extension of God, cut off like a reproducing amoeba. God created man external to Himself, and they must not touch in the picture.
However, this point must be made: That which is created out of nothing and now has objective reality, does show forth the thought of God and is therefore an exhibition of who and what He is. The external world is not an extension of the essence of God; nevertheless, the external world does reveal and exhibit who and what God is.
Commentary by Richard I Zorek [#1] 6/2/2007 04:58am
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