Recently the answer to a question posed in church gatherings was what is the key characteristic that defines man, that he is made in the image of God?
The answer was intellect.
The answer is partially correct, but i think misses out the chief Glory and purpose of man, and we are in danger of exaulting an intellectual understanding of God from the 'heart knowing' as the way that the Lord has purposed for us to 'know him'.
Don't forget that the Lord chose uneducated men as His apostles, men without a formal scholarly education. He did choose one Scholar, Paul. They knew God, not primarily in a scholarly way, but i contest, spirit to Spirit. 'They that come to worship me, must worship in 'Spirit and in Truth'. Which contrasts with the pharisees' merely intellectual 'knowing' which led their hearts far away.
I contest that to be in the image of God Himself is primarily to be created in the same material substance as God Himself, and God's material is life giving spirit -(1 Cor). And So He has given us of His Spirit that we may be indwelled and manifest His own likeness.
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