Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Andrew C Smith <a.c.smith AT juno.com>]

I think the point of "image" in ch. 5 is to establish a biological
principle: when a living being begets another living being, there will be
some similarities between the two. It would have been odd, if Adam had
suddenly begotten a bird or a vegetable. No, the offspring of a man
resembles that man - and on a more cosmic scale, the human race was
created by God, and thus resembles God in some way.

A.C. Smith





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