Adam is 130 years old when he fathers a son in his own likeness, in his own image, and names him Seth. This verse is constructed to echo Genesis 1:26–28: just as God created Adam in his own image and likeness, Adam now fathers Seth in his own image and likeness. The pattern of image-transmission is built into human reproduction — each generation carries something of what went before. But the order matters: Seth is born in Adam's likeness first, then God's. The image of God is transmitted through a humanity that is now fallen; it persists, but it passes through the filter of human brokenness. Romans 5:12 describes how through one man sin entered the world and death through sin — Seth inherits both the image and the mortality. Yet 1 Corinthians 15:21–22 holds out the hope: as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. Today's reflection: what do you carry from the generations before you — both the image-bearing dignity and the inherited brokenness — and what does it mean that Christ can restore what was lost in the transmission?

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