Posts Tagged ‘Image of God’
Imago Dei and the (Re)Shaping of Our Image
Society embraces a rather incongruous mix of beliefs relating to the value of mankind. Evolutionary ideas simultaneously degrade the value of humans (“man is merely an evolved animal”) and elevate humans to quasidivine status (“man is god”). All such attempts are really about dismissing God from our lives while claiming self-sovereignty. Man’s view of humankind…
Read MoreGod’s Image Bearers
Loving Our Neighbors in a Fallen World I recently ran across The Third Option (Simon and Schuster, 2018) by San Diego pastor Miles McPherson. The Third Option is an examination of race and racism informed by McPherson’s experiences as a self-described mixed-race individual who identifies as black, who has placed his faith in Jesus Christ,…
Read MoreThoroughly Human Thinking
Andrew Hudson FrontLine • July/August 2014 The fall of mankind into sin has caused corruption to human thinking (Titus 1:15). This is evidenced by the repeated appeals in the New Testament for believers to renew their thinking (Rom. 12:2; Col. 3:10). This raises the question, “What is fallen man’s thinking like?” The answer to this…
Read MoreWhat Is the Image of God in Man?
Fred Moritz And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created…
Read MoreThe Problem with Human Problems Is Humans
John Vaughn When Paul told the Corinthians, “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man,” he made practical the doctrine of Anthropology. Declaring that all human problems are “such as is common,” Paul explained that fallen man is susceptible to all the problems that men have in common. Man, made…
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