A sculpture of you and a picture of you both hold your image. Yet, neither of them hold your essence in terms of the substance you are made of or the personality and character you possess. Likewise, you cannot equate being made in God’s “image” as being like Him to the point where you can claim to be a smaller or less intricate version of Him. God is infinite and powerful in every way with no limits in any of His capacities (i.e. omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent, etc.). We are the opposite. There is nothing limitless about us. We are temporal and limited in every way. Thus, any comparison between us and God can only show the vast chasm of differences present—never how close we are to Him in terms of being “Him” in any way. God, through our limited capacities, shows us our need of Him. Like God, we have emotions, yet we could not even attempt to express them with the intensity He does. Can you love as God loves? Put simply, to hold the image and or expression of something/someone, no matter how similar, does not make you them--even on a smaller scale. Whatever is in the cake is in the crumbs. Jesus is the only example of the essence of God (still retaining its full completeness) being minimized and formed into (or with) humanity.
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