Image of God
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Definition
- By creating human beings—male and female—in his image, God established a Father-children relationship with them in which they mirror his attributes and administer his dominion unto his royal honor.
- The Image of God has a working between the Substantive & Royal view of the image of God, but the Royal relationship should be front-and-center, the driver of the car, and the Substantive view should be in the passenger seat
Deep Dive
Exegesis
Key Texts: Genesis 1#26
Then 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 birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
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