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The passage from Matthew 5 is included because it combines with part
of the covenant made with man after the flood (Gen 9.6) to emphasize
two often neglected biblical truths:
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One. Murder is blasphemy, the destruction of a creature
made in the image of the Creator. Those placed in authority by
Providence have a special responsibility to punish with death those
found guilty of the deliberate killing of a human being without
proper authority.
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Two. It follows that, as our Lord carefully instructs us, that
insulting a creature made in the image of the Creator is
blasphemous. .Behavior may be properly judged in a proper
manner in appropriate circumstances. But the person is to be judged
by the Creator, and not by the creature.
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Lord willing, I will be posting more about these verses in the near
future.
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Gen. 1:26 ¶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our
likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and
over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the
earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
KJV
Gen. 1:27 So God created man in his own
image, in the image of God created he
him; male and female created he them.
KJV
Gen. 5:3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a
son in his own likeness, after his
image; and called his name Seth:
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Gen. 9:6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed:
for in the image of God made he man.
KJV
Matt. 5:21 ¶ Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time,
Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of
the judgment:
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Matt. 5:22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his
brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and
whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the
council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of
hell fire.
KJV
Matt. 22:20 And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and
superscription?
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Mk. 12:16 And they brought it.
And he saith unto them, Whose is this
image and superscription? And they said unto him, Caesar's.
KJV
Lk. 20:24 Shew me a penny. Whose image and superscription hath it?
They answered and said, Caesar's.
KJV
Acts 19:35 And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said,
Ye men of
Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the
Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the
image which
fell down from Jupiter?
KJV
Rom. 1:23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an
image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted
beasts, and creeping things.
KJV
Rom. 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to
be conformed to the image of his Son,
that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
KJV
Rom. 11:4 But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved
to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the
image of Baal.
KJV
1 Cor. 11:7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his
head, forasmuch as he is the image and
glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
KJV
1 Cor. 15:49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall
also bear the image of the heavenly.
KJV
2 Cor. 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the
glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to
glory, even as
by the Spirit of the Lord.
KJV
2 Cor. 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of
them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of
Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
KJV
Col. 1:15 ¶ Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of
every creature:
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Col. 3:10 And have put on the new man,
which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created
him:
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Heb. 1:3 Who being the brightness of his
glory, and the express image of his
person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he
had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the
Majesty on high;
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Heb. 10:1 ¶ For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and
not the very image of the things, can
never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year
continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
KJV
Rev. 13:14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the
means of those miracles which he had
power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on
the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the
wound by a sword, and did live.
KJV
Rev. 13:15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the
beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that
as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
KJV
Rev. 14:9 ¶ And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud
voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his
mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
KJV
Rev. 14:11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and
ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and
his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
KJV
Rev. 15:2 ¶ And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire:
and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his
image, and over his mark, and over
the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps
of God.
KJV
Rev. 16:2 ¶ And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the
earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which
had the mark of the beast, and upon them
which worshipped his image.
KJV
Rev. 19:20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet
that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that
had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his
image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with
brimstone.
KJV
Rev. 20:4 ¶ And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment
was given unto them: and I saw the
souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for
the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his
image, neither had received his mark
upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned
with Christ a thousand years.
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