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<div class="head">In What Sense Can Humans Become like God?</div>
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<p><a id="nbi757-si1" onClick="return mV('Gen',1,27);">Gen 1:27</a> says God made humanity in His image</p>
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<blockquote><p>And God created humankind in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them (<a id="nbi757-si2" onClick="return mV('Gen',1,27);">Gen 1:27</a>).</p></blockquote>
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<p>However we read in <a id="nbi757-si3" onClick="return mV('Gen',3,22);">Gen 3:22</a></p>
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<blockquote><p>Then the LORD God said, Behold, the humans have become like one of Us, knowing good and evil; and now, lest they stretch out their hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever (<a id="nbi757-si4" onClick="return mV('Gen',3,22);">Gen 3:22</a>).</p></blockquote>
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<p>Are these two passages contradictory? How can humanity, part of the creation and not the Creator, be like God?</p>
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<p><b>Before and After Fall</b></p>
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<p>These passages speak of two things: <a id="nbi757-si5" onClick="return mV('Gen',1,'1-');">Gen 1</a> refers to Adam and Eve before the Fall while <a id="nbi757-si6" onClick="return mV('Gen',3,'1-');">Gen 3</a> speaks of humankind after the Fall.</p>
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<p><b>Nature and State</b></p>
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<p>The first passage has to do with their nature, the second passage with their state. When they were created, Adam and Eve had no knowledge of evil, only good. After the Fall they became like God in the sense they knew both good and evil. <a id="nbi757-si7" onClick="return mV('Gen',1,'1-');">Gen 1</a>, therefore, refers to their created state—perfection, while <a id="nbi757-si8" onClick="return mV('Gen',3,'1-');">Gen 3</a> speaks of their fallen state—knowing good and evil.</p>
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