Speartus, others have sufficiently answered your "commentary" if you are willing to allow Scripture to be your guide.

I will merely add, Christ did not come to redeem men with fallen angelic images. Christ did not come to make a new creation out of the image of Satan. The very definition of man is that he is in the “image of God.” To remove this is to say man is not longer a man and thus Jesus, who is a man “in the image of God,” could not have redeemed them. Romans 1 states: Man by nature knows God because he is His “image-bearer” therefore he is conscious not only of himself but of One that has created him (Bavinck). James 3:9 reinforces the concept that the image remains intact after the Fall. James warns us of the dangers of the tongue with these words:

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James 3:7-10 For every kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind.

8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is a restless evil, it is full of deadly poison.

9 Therewith bless we the Lord and Father; and therewith curse we men, who are made after the likeness of God:

10 out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.


Reformed and Always Reforming,