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Show 6 talking to Moses, says, "Behold there is a pla~e by me, And it shall come to and thou shalt stand upon a rock. pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by; and I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts but my face shall not be seen." All of these passages., said I, to the reverend gentleman, go to prove, if they prove anything at all, that man is made in the image of his Maker, and that he ls His exact image, having eye for eye, forehead for forehead, eyebrows for eyebrows, nose for nose,cheekbones for cheekbones, mouth for mouth, chin for chin, ears for ears, precisely like our Father in heaven. 31 This may appear to you a curiosity; but do you not see, bona fide, that the Lord made Adam like himself; and the Saviour we read of was made to look so like him, that he was the express image of his person? 1 The word image we understand in the same sense as we do the word in the 3rd verse of the 5th chapter of Genesis, "And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a I am quite son in his own likeness, after his image." satisfied to be made aware by the scriptures, and by the Spirit of God, that He is not only the God and the Father of Jesus Christ, but is also the Father of our spirits and the Creator of our bodies which bear His image as Seth bore the image of his father Adam .... "I believe that the declaration made in these God has made his children scriptures is literally true. like himself to stand erect, and has endowed them with intelligence and power and dominion over all his works, and given them the same attributes which he himself possesses." 24 "Why," said he, He laughed at his folly himself. "Brother Young, I never once thought of it before ln all my life, ... 111 "I always had the idea that God was a being however, wi thout body, parts or passions." He admitted, th~t he had never gained that idea from the Bible. 31 He never had known anything about the character of the God he worshipped; but, like the Athenians, had raised an altar with the inscription, "To the unknown God. 111 And notwithsuch standing the Scriptures dwell upon this point with force and clearness, the idea entertained by this gentleman is that entertained by the Christian world in general. 31 |
