#IMAGE OF A BIBLE CRACKED#

Others of us know we can’t fix ourselves so we try to live life to the fullest, indulging in all this world has to offer us. Some of us are deceived into thinking that we can fix ourselves if we just live a good enough life or right enough wrongs. The danger we face is that we look in all the wrong places for restoration. I think that most of us deep down know that we are spiritually broken. It just becomes a distorted reflection of what it’s supposed to be.

#IMAGE OF A BIBLE CRACKED#

Like a mirror that cracks, a cracked mirror doesn’t stop being a mirror. To be human is to reflect God’s glory, to be unhuman is to sin against God. Reflecting God’s image is hardwired into how we were created, and it is fundamentally what makes us human. This is why by God’s common grace, evil people can still do good things. Though our ability to reflect God’s image is tainted by sin, we can still reflect God’s glory through our lives. When man became sinful, human beings did not stop being God’s image bearer. Q2: How can God’s broken image bearers be restored?īefore we answer this question, it is important that we emphasize something about our created nature as human beings. This should also compel us to live as Christ, in true righteousness and holiness. But as Christians God is using us to restore his image among his fallen image bearers, whom he loves! These verses from Genesis should compel us to love all people as God’s creation, as we share the good news of powerful healing that is found only in the gospel of Jesus Christ. Our fallen sin nature can thus make it difficult for us to walk in holiness and love other people. What do these truths mean for us as Christians? We must remember that all people, since the fall of Adam and Eve, have abused the privileged status of being called God’s image bearers. Packer once described this word “image” in Genesis as “representative likeness.” In other words, God created human beings to represent himself through us on earth. It means that God has made us to live his way rather than our own way. Secondly, to be created in God’s image means that God himself has determined how we ought to live. As Christians we cannot forget the significance of this special honor that God has bestowed upon all humanity. It means that God has set us apart and made us a very special creation in this world. 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.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him male and female he created them.įirst, to be created in God’s image means that we have been given a unique status, a divine dignity as human beings. Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. There are several ways that I think Christians can faithfully answer this question, but before we do, follow along with me in Genesis 1:26-27: Q1: What does it mean to be made in the image of God? This is a very beautiful, complex reality, so let’s unpack three important questions that arise from this truth in Genesis chapter one.

In verse 27, God reveals to us a truth that should shape our entire view of humanity and his creation: “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him male and female he created them.” The God who created the heavens and the earth tells us this: We are made in his image. And out of everything God could have created, it is incredibly humbling to think that he created you and me. I find this to be an awesome truth about God! Our God is the glorious Creator.

We learn that we have a God who can create energy, matter, waves, time, life, and us by his very words. Here in chapter one, we find both the beginning of the Bible and the beginning of Creation. Genesis is a word that simply means beginning.

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