Who Are You?
Every worldview has to answer one question before it can answer any other: what is a human being? An animal that happened to evolve? A spirit trapped in a body? A consumer, a voter, a bundle of feelings? Scripture answers on its first page, and the answer changes everything.
God created man in his own image (Genesis 1:27). You are not God, and you are not an animal. You are a creature made to resemble your Creator, to know Him, and to represent Him on the earth. That is the source of your worth, the reason your choices matter, and the reason nothing but God can satisfy you.
This doctrine reaches into every corner of life. It is why murder is a crime against God (Genesis 9:6) and why cursing a person is wrong (James 3:9). It is why the unborn child and the aged grandparent have the same worth, why God made us male and female, and why no ethnic group may look down on another. And it is the doctrine the Gospel completes. Christ is the image of the invisible God (Colossians 1:15), and God is making His people like Him (Romans 8:29).
If every person you meet bears the image of God, how should that change the way you treat the next one?
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For Deeper Study
- Created in God's ImageAmazon Anthony A. HoekemaReformed. A clear, thorough study of the image of God, the Fall, and restoration in Christ.
- Dignity and Destiny: Humanity in the Image of GodAmazon John F. KilnerA careful study of every biblical text on the image of God, and of how the doctrine has been used and misused.
- One Race One Blood: A Biblical Answer to RacismAmazon Ken Ham and A. Charles WareYoung earth creationists. Shows from Genesis and Acts 17:26 that there is one human race, and answers racism from Scripture.
- The Case for Life: Equipping Christians to Engage the CultureAmazon Scott KlusendorfA concise, reasoned defense of the unborn as fully human from conception.
- Love Thy Body: Answering Hard Questions about Life and SexualityAmazon Nancy R. PearceyShows how a biblical view of the body answers questions about abortion, euthanasia, sexuality, and gender.
- Foxe's Book of MartyrsAmazon John FoxeThe classic Protestant record of those who died for the faith, from the early church to the English Reformation.
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Creation
God created the heavens and the earth from nothing by the word of His power, and everything He made was very good.
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