This is the written account of Adam’s family line.
When God created mankind, he made them in the likeness of God. He created them male and female and blessed them. And he named them “Mankind” when they were created.
When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth. After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters
Now if you will turn to Genesis 1:26
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness.”
In my family on the Darling side there are 17 Grand Children, I am the oldest and for quite some time the Grand Children have been having children. My wife and I have one child. I have heard it for a couple of decades, when a new child is born we look for big jowls [show mine] and when we see them we all get giddy with glee, that baby is one of us !!!!! Don’t all of us do that ??? What would happen at the family introduction if your child had Teletubby’s like ears for the first time. Everyone would be speaking softly, behind backs about that but what if for generations everyone had Teletubby like ears and protrusions from their heads and your new baby had them too. There would be celebration about that, THE DARLINGS LIVE ON !!! IT WORKED YET AGAIN !!!… EVEN PAGANS WOULD CELEBRATE THIS TO THE GODS OF FERTILITY !!! THANK THE GODS WE ARE LOOKED UPON WITH FAVOR BY THEM,
My wife nicknamed my daughter Ronda because she is in so many ways like her daddy… Ron. Recently Ronda and I took a small trip together and after a few days sent mom a picture of us having a good time. It was a picture of the kitchen cabinets in the place we were renting… most of the doors left open. We didn’t set that up, we just noticed it and all 3 of us just laughed and laughed. That and countless other natural things drive momma NUTTS at home, sometimes Ronda and I like to emphasis things to relish in this imaging thing and of course make momma a little uncomfortable 🙂 But know for sure there is lots of Leisha in Ronda too. Like momma’s naturally sweet nature. I love that about my offspring. I have become sweeter but the natural sweetness my daughter has comes from her mother.
This is Identity Language, Fathering Language, Parenting Language. It’s all over the bible and the more you learn to see it the more you will see it. We do have things in us that came from our “Spiritual Father”. God is trying to communicate to man here and to you and me specifically, he is our father, we naturally get things from him just like our children getting things from us. We are being invited into a certain perspective of a relationship with the Creator… as a Father where we also have things already in us like our father. Father is used all over the bible and that kind of perspective, that kind of thinking is a huge part of our rightful inheritance as a child and its hugely important to know that, work that out in our minds eye until we begin to approach the creator from the universe from that angle. If you study religions and world views in the world God as a Father is fairly unique and it is absolutely part of the world view that comes to us from the long legacy of Christianity.