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A fallacious argument says that while Jesus Christ is called "the image of God" in the Bible, Christianity really is idolatry—followers worship an idol.

"When I hear that, I think, ‘Wow, that’s really crafty,' but it’s to misunderstand the idea of an image," says Preacher Richard Jordan. "An image is a representation. It’s not some little piece of stone or rusty thing. It’s a person in whom God dwells to manifest God.

"When God made Adam, He said, ‘Let’s make man in our own image and in our likeness.’ Was God making an idol? No, He was making a representative. He was making someone in whom He could put His life, His will, His ideas, His thinking . . . and then let them go out and represent Him before creation.

“Literally, what God clothed Adam and Eve in was ‘the coat of many colors.’ Only one other person in the universe had that coat and that was God Himself. So, when all the other creatures saw God in His coat of many colors, and then they saw Adam and Eve in their coat of many colors, they realized these people were all connected. One of the things you do when you want to identify people together is you dress them the same.

“God literally put a uniform on Adam and Eve to identify them as His representatives in the earth and that’s the image idea. They are His spokesmen in the earth. They represent Him. It’s not an idol at all.

“You weren’t to fall down and worship a piece of stone, or a piece of tin or something. You worshipped God, but they worshipped Him through the representative He gave in the earth to do that.

“Well, Jesus Christ is ‘the image of the invisible God.’ So when the guy says we worship an idol, well, we do worship the image of God, but it’s not a lifeless piece of wood; it’s the living person of the Lord Jesus Christ.

“When Christ became a man is what Col. 2:9 9 is talking about. It says, ‘For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.’ For such a stupendous event, the question would then be, ‘Why did He do that?’ There are a myriad of reasons but I’ll give you a few.

“God became a man in order to fulfill prophecy. ‘He sent forth His Son in the fullness of time.’ There was a point in time where God said He was going to come. There were prophecies about the coming Messiah. About God becoming flesh. For example, Jeremiah 23:5: ‘Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.’

“In other words, the Messiah was literally going to be the son of David; the Son of Man was literally going to be God in human flesh.”

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