God of Reproduction
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. – Genesis 1:26-27
In continuation of our meditation on the attributes of God, another insight we can learn about Him from Genesis chapter 1 is that He reproduces Himself. He is a God of reproduction. It is also instructive that He is the first being to do this, thus setting the example for His creatures to follow as well as a template for them to use.
It would have been an absurdity if God had completed the work of creation without reproducing Himself. That would have made Him totally detached from His creatures and the universe. He would have been a remote and cold concept to the earthlings as some people who do not know Him or who do not have a good understanding of His ways opine.
The main shocker is that if God had not created anything like Himself; or, specifically, if He had not created humans, there would not have been a need for all the scenarios we read from Genesis 2 to Revelation 22 and any known creed, monument or relic of history that are around today. Why? Because humans would have been zombies created to live or do as they please without the restraints that come from the consciousness of a Higher Being, a hereafter, reward and retribution, or cause and effect.
However, because God did re-create Himself in humans who He made in His own similitude, that was the reason the history of creation did not end at Genesis 1, and we are presented with the various dynamics of human interactions, natural and supernatural occurrences that ensued after creation.
God reproduced Himself in humans and with that He also entrenched in humans the ability to reproduce after their own kind and semblance. This creative power God endowed humans with should not be narrowed to a biological process alone, It is certainly more than that as science has proved over time and helped us to see that humans are more capable than a biological reproduction alone. It is to the extent we are able to stretch ourselves and tap into the vast potential of our brain that we are able to achieve this, live to the full stature of God or be the god He has created us to be (Psalm 82:6).
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