User talk:RobertC/Image
Imago Dei[edit]
Three thoughts, Robert.
First, 1 Cor 15:45-46 provides Paul's radical reading of Genesis 1-2. He suggests that Gen 1 is not a historical text, but rather that it should be understood as a sort of projection toward the end of things. Gen 2 is the early history of this earth, according to Paul. Doesn't that mean--if Paul is right, or at least if we follow Paul--that man is only to become the imago dei (the phrase in Gen 1:26, etc.) when Gen 2 gives way to Gen 1? In other words, when we move from the actual events in which history took its rise to the seven-fold pattern bound up in the endowment/eucharist?
Second, here is Marion's translation of 2 Cor 3:18: "We all, with face unveiled and revealed, serving as optical mirror to reflect the glory of the Lord, we are transformed in and according to his icon, passing from glory to glory, according to the spirit of the Lord" (pg. 21 of God Without Being, 1991, trans. Thomas Carlson). Doesn't this verse suggest that becoming the imago dei is an event to take place at the end of things, that it is the conclusion of a process the Spirit begins to take us through once we enter the realms of hope? --Joe Spencer 17:42, 29 Jul 2006 (UTC)
Third, isn't this the thrust of Alma 5:14 anyway? In giving up idolatry, we become icons?
