In Rom 8:3, the word "likeness" is the Greek word homoíōma which means:
("resemblance").homoíōma does not require one element of a comparison to be derived from the other; it can be wholly separate from it. Rather, 3667 (homoíōma) refers to a basic analogy (resemblance), not an exact copy.
HELPS Word-studies (bold mine)
So, the likeness of sinful flesh Christ had was only a resemblance, not an exact copy. Again, in Heb 2:14 we read that Jesus only took part of that which the rest of the descendants of Adam share fully with Adam.
Read that definition again:
homoíōma does not require one element of a comparison to be derived from the other;
it can be wholly separate from it.
Rather, 3667 (homoíōma) refers to a basic analogy (resemblance), not an exact copy.
I would agree with that. But not the way you seem to be using it as some kind of hope in the things seen the flesh what the eyes .Hoping it could profit for something other than a one time
demonstration of the unseen work. Understanding (walking) by the things seen the temporal. . rather than by the faith of God that works in the believer. The eternal. . not seen
I think when we think of eternal God, the Spirit of Truth. . He remains without beginning.
Our imagination if walking by faith should come up blank. He who remins without form is greater than the our imagination of the heart.
He is not made after corruptible man or any rudiment of this world. This is to include the flesh of the Son of Man,. Jesus
The one time demonstration of the lamb who was slain already. . . from the foundation of the world when God was working.. Never again another demonstration..( 2 Corinthians 5:16)
Like you did define 3667 (
homoíōma) . In the same way simply define the words
now henceforth
no more. (nothing nada zip)
Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.2 Corinthians 5:16
Nothing to copy from . likeness is not mirror image. God does not have a literal face, as mankind.
I would agree the
likeness of sinful flesh was only a resemblance ((
homoíōma) of our High priest continually as the Son of God. (Melchedik)
He remains without mother or father.. . . . No genealogy in the Godhead. Therefore God remains without beginning of Spirit life or end. Hebrew 7.
It was not an exact copy of Melchezedek a theophany. A vision without rudiments (clay). Literal flesh was needed for the one time demonstration to do what the letter of the law that kills could not do . Heal and create anew. The work of faith or called the law of faith ( Christ's the unseen eternal) ..
If we were to try and make the unseen work of the gospel of the Holy Spirit that which did profit after the eyes see . Then we could just include Jesus like one the apostles into a pantheon of gods. Revealed as
gods are come down to us in the "likeness of men".
Likeness is not imagery.
We know it was the unseen work of the gospel that enabled the lame to walk by the faith that worked in the person and not what the eyes did see the temporal .
Note.... (purple bolded) my comment.
And there they preached the gospel. (The unseen Power of God) And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked:The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith (of Christ) to be healed, Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked.And when the people "saw" what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men. And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker. Acts14:8-14
The apostles like the Son of man Jesus refused to stand in the holy unseen place of the glory of the father .(the abomination of desolation)
Psalm 89:5-6 King James Version (KJV) And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Lord: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints. For who in the heaven can be compared unto the Lord? who among the sons of the mighty (flesh and blood) can be likened unto the Lord?