Image of God (2)

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Humanity is created in the image or likeness of God. This image of God, given in creation, was damaged in the fall, but may be restored through Jesus Christ.

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Humanity created in God’s image

Image and likeness are probably synonymous terms in Hebrew parallelism. No physical likeness between God and humanity is intended.
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Paul implies that the divine image is associated in the first place with men

Although Paul at points seems to imply that the image of God is especially associated with males, he does not imply that this involves male supremacy:

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Respect for human life in God’s image

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The divine image implies partnership with God in the stewardship of creation

Genesis 1:26 KJV 1900
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.
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The divine image includes imitating God’s love and justice

Matthew 5:48 KJV 1900
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
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The image of God disfigured, though not totally destroyed, in the fall

Romans 3:23 KJV 1900
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

Fallen humanity in contention with creation

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Fallen humanity and the exploitation of nature

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Jesus Christ the image of God

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He is the exact representation of God

Hebrews 1:3 KJV 1900
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

He reveals God

John 1:18 KJV 1900
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

Jesus Christ is the perfect human being

John 1:4 KJV 1900
In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
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Restoration of the divine image through Jesus Christ

The divine image is renewed in all who are united with him by faith

Romans 8:29 KJV 1900
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
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The promise of complete restoration in the future

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The Christian life as a process of transformation

2 Corinthians 3:18 KJV 1900
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
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