Verse 3
"And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth."
Some commentators make a big thing out of Seth's being begotten after "the image" of Adam, concluding from this that he was also "in the image of God", but to us it appears that there is a world of difference. While true enough that some vestiges of the "image of God" belong to every man ever born, it does not follow that certain persons (Seth, for example) are born in "God's image" just as Adam was created. No, the stark contrast in what the Bible says forbids such a view. God created Adam "in his own image"; and then, after the Fall, Adam begat a son in his own image, a far different thing.[6] This is to say that, "He transmitted the image of God in which he was created, but not in the purity in which it came direct from God, but in the form given to it by his own self-determination, modified and corrupted by sin."
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