. When you stop to think about it, it’s really amazing how the Image of God ties everything together. It helps us to understand why once sin broke the Image of God in us, it can’t be mended, it can’t be repaired it, can’t be tweaked, or improved! It must be born again. This is […]
Sin gave us a broken Image and resulted in our being broken people, acting upon our now depraved nature (our sin nature) to varying degrees. Sometimes people call this “Total Depravity.” It doesn’t mean that our humanity is 100% corrupted (as bad as we could possibly be without any ability to exhibit virtue), but it […]
That story from last time about Babel is a good reminder for us that we have retained a relic of the Image of God deep within us. It’s powerful and amazing. It’s ours to use and display, and as wrong as our motivations are at times, it’s never outside of God’s control how we use […]
We can’t look at the Image of God today without asking ourselves why doesn’t the world look like we display the Image of God? Disorder. Disunity. Disinformation. Almost every kind of diss you can think of and exactly the opposite of the Image of God. Why is that? . Way back in Genesis, just after […]
. I’d be hard pressed to find anything–any topic of contemporary significance, any issue historical or current, any future-directed thought, or ethical dilemma that doesn’t point back ultimately to the Image of God. When you start to look at mankind through the lens of the Image of God it’s easy to see that all human […]
. This year’s Lent Devotional Series “Created to Display His Image” resumes tomorrow after today’s Sabbath rest to meditate and worship. Today, reflect on what it means to abide in Him.
. Think about it: The evolutionist would say that humans “descended” from other primates. The Bible says that all animals were created on the sixth day…God proclaims it “good” (kind of like closing the book or rebooting the computer) but then He chooses to do something more: creation with His Image, an exception for mankind. […]
. We often hear that “They will know we are Christians by our love, by our love, yes, they’ll know we are Christians by our love.” While Christians are one in the Spirit and one in the Lord, Jesus says that they’ll know we are Christians by …wait for it… our unity. Not a superficial […]
It’s perhaps easy to see how walking with God before the fall of man was simpler. For Adam there were fewer temptations…just the one big one. But Adam heard God’s voice with his own ears so perhaps that insulated him for who knows how much time post-creation? Scripture is silent. It may not have been […]
For Adam, bearing God’s Image perfectly before the fall meant that he could walk with God and talk with Him with no obstacles whatsoever to having relationship and communion. Genesis 2:4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the LORD God made the earth and the heavens. […]
