Therefore he can have no corporeal image after which He made the body of man" (vol.
What is the assumption based on? It is usually on men's definition of the word "spirit." They combine that with John 4:24, which says that "God is Spirit." Adam Clarke provides a typical explanation: "Now as a divine being is infinite, he is neither limited by parts or definable by passions. Who knows better? The God who authored the Book and the people He used to write these things down-or people who are looking at it centuries after the fact and have never seen God or heard His voice, people who are using a combination of Bible verses, metaphysics, philosophy, science, and assumption? A physical image and likeness of God has been made. It is not an image and likeness in progress as in the creation of a character image, but within the context, the image was already accomplished. By the time the statement in verse 27 is done, man is already in His image. Verse 27 says that the creation is in the past tense. Verse 26 says the creation of man is about to occur. Virtually every explanation of these two verses begins with an assumption: that God did not really mean what He clearly states. Even now, in our physical forms, we are made in His image so that we will have the potential to be exactly like Him. God is clearly implying that He is reproducing Himself and that His purpose is that we will be exactly like Him when He is finished with us. And when they reproduce, they look like their parents. Each one of them reproduces after its kind. So He tells us immediately that we are made in His image and His likeness. God is beginning to establish our vision of what His purpose is and where we are headed with our lives, and being what we are, we need to have some insight into what He is. If the foundation is not laid correctly, then the rest of the building is crooked. It is the very first chapter of the Bible, and God is laying the foundation for what will follow. Notice the overall context of these verses.
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