Day 1486 – Being An Imager Of God – Worldview Wednesday
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Welcome to Day 1486 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.I am Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to WisdomBeing An Imager Of God – Worldview WednesdayWisdom - the final...
mostra di piùBeing An Imager Of God· Segment 22: Plurality Language
IntroductionThe question before us is: How does the plural language of Genesis 1:26 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+1%3A26&version=NLT) link God and humankind and the members of the heavenly host, the members of God’s council, as it were, together? Let me read that verse again as we begin today. Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.” This is going to take a bit of abstract thinking for us. The plurality is important. To understand why it’s important, though, we need to understand specifically the concept of the image of God, or as you’ll hear me say, “the concept of imaging God.”
RepresentationI will front-load a little bit of the perspective that we’ll be getting into here. It’s going to have something to do with representing God. We represent God in a specific way in our realm, the earthly realm, and spiritual beings represent God in their realm in whatever way God wants them to as well.
So upfront, let’s try to keep the idea of representation in mind, and that’s going to be integral to this whole concept of the image of God. When we think about this and, typically, when people are taught about the image of God, several things are overlooked or assumed, and we’re going to be careful not to do that.
Characteristics of the Image of GodThe image of God in and of itself has certain characteristics in biblical thinking, biblical texts, biblical theology. That is that men and women possess it equally. It is the thing (whatever it is) that distinguishes humankind from all other earthly creatures. It is somehow linked to God in some way—the person, the character, the nature of God in some way. It’s also, and this is a little less easy to spot, the image of God is also either possessed or not. That is, there is no hint in the text that you...
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Autore | Harold Guthrie Chamberlain III |
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