The Image by J. P. Chamberlain

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 10, 1871

The Image.

By J. P. Chamberlain

Bro. Canright, in Review, Vol. 36, No. 11, in his article headed, The Image, concludes that man, made of the dust of the ground, constitutes the image of God. He says, “Here we have the very thing made that God before mentioned, viz., man.” Again he says, “Hence that which was made in the image of God is the physical man.” Does not the image of God as represented by man at his creation, embrace a more comprehensive nature than physical man? Paul says, Col. 3:10, “And have put on the new man which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created him.” I understand Paul here to say that man was created after the image of God, and that he is renewed in knowledge. Can physical man be renewed in knowledge after the image of God? God is a spirit. John 4:24. How can the very thing made—physical man, be the image of a spirit?

J. P. Chamberlain.