The Pastor's Son by William W. Walter
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26th verse. '_And God said, let us make man in our image after our
likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and the fowl of the air and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth_.' Do you understand it now?" "Not yet. God is Spirit, is He not?" "Certainly, why do you ask?" "That verse says that God made man in His image and likeness, does that mean that man is spiritual?" "Yes," answered the pastor. "Then my body must be spiritual." "Oh, no, our bodies are not spiritual, it is only the soul that is in the body that is here spoken of as the image and likeness of God." "Then God did not make our bodies, did He, father?" "Why, certainly He did. Have you never read that God made all that was made?" "It doesn't say anything in that verse about God's making a body does it father?" "No but it says 'in His image and likeness,' that means just like Him," said the pastor. "Then if I am just like Him, He in turn must be just like me, and in |
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