Tag: Imago Dei
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The Creation of Humankind
During the creation week, God created the heavens and the earth and has been filling them both. Moses’s language has been inexact. We have not received the minutia of creation. We simply know that God speaks to create and command His creation. Moses has presented God as the sole creator and has called out the…
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God’s Image, Not Our Design
A long time ago, there was a father who built a house for his son. He knew precisely what kind of man his son was and upon finishing the house, he handed the keys to his son and entrusted his son to keep the house and take care of it. Every so often, the father…
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People: set apart to be the holy image of God
There is an old lawn mower sitting in my garage that is unusable. When the grass begins to grow this summer, I am going to need a mower and the one I do have needs to be fixed. A useless lawn mower does not serve much of a purpose. In fact, a paperweight has…
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Christian, is your world too dark? (Matthew 5:13-16)
Consider, briefly, the purpose of the pen. It is used to record and that is its purpose. Just as the pen was designed with a purpose, so also you and I were designed with a purpose, and we belong to a community that was called to a specific purpose. A pen is at its…
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Imago Dei
Am I the image of a perfect God? He created me in love And I do love Am I the image of a perfect God? He has all authority And I do rule representatively I also desire to rule over myself and over others Am I the image of a perfect God?…
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Traces of Divinity
Consider the African witch doctor, practitioners of ancient Native American Medicine, wiccans of both the white and black magic persuasion, tales of witches and stories of warlocks. Consider the vast number of miracle claims prominent on the earth now and in history. The question as to whether or not any of these claims has any…