THIS WEEK'S MEMORY VERSE:
Try to memorise Gen 1:27 in your favorite translation
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Write down what the memory verse means to you now. Then after you complete
the week's lesson, come
back to this question and write down how your understanding of the verse
has grown.
How many different
ways are we created in God's image? What are they?
Do we as humans really know what it means to be "created in God's image"?
Why/why not?
It is not generally realised that this memory text was originally
written in Hebrew
poetry (where the lines repeat the thoughts). Write write out the verse
and try to break it into its poetic lines of repeating thoughts.
CREATED TO LOOK LIKE GOD — Sunday
What did Jesus actually mean when he said, "Whoever has seen me, has
seen the Father?" (John 14:9) Write down as many
different alternative meanings as possible, then select the meaning or meanings you think
are most likely.
CREATED TO THINK LIKE GOD — Monday
The lesson quotes Education pages 17-18: "Every human being, created in the
image of God, is endowed with a power akin to that of the Creator --
individuality, power to think and to do." What is this individuality?
Does it conflict with calls for unity in the church? Are individuality and
unity opposites, or the same thing? Does true individuality create
unity?
Explain your answer.
CREATED TO REFLECT GOD — Tuesday
1 Peter 1:16 and Leviticus 11:44 say, "Be ye holy, for I am holy."
Is what this verse tells us to do possible? If so, how? If not, why did God
give us a command we cannot obey? How do other translations render
this passage? Do these different translations change what you think of
this statement? How?
CREATED TO BE LIKE GOD — Wednesday
The KJV of Matthew 5:48 says, "Be ye therefore perfect as your Father
which is in heaven is perfect." When that was translated almost 400 years
ago, the word "perfect"
meant "complete." What meaning, then, were the KJV translators trying to
give this verse? How does the word
"therefore" help us interpret the verse? How does the Luke 6:36 wording of this
verse (at the end of the same story)
shed light on the meaning of this verse? Consider this translation
of the verse: "So include everyone, as your heavenly Father includes everyone."
Does it clarify the meaning, or obscure it?
THE IMAGE BROKEN — Thursday
What do you see are three of the worst ways that the entrance of sin changed
humanity? Why do you select these three?
What do you think of the verse, "No one shall pluck them out of my
hand" (John 10:28)?
Don't forget to return to question 1.