Image of God

If I think of an image of God, my first causal thought is a visual image of God the Father. I would picture that God is someone like a Moses or Noah type figure. I do not believe that God is human like in appearance but that is my initial thought. There are times I imagine God is like a cloud but this cloud covers the entire earth. It is as if my view of God is he must have eyes like us in order to know what is going on with everyone. I believe he is all knowing and all-powerful yet I still…

Dahee Pyo L27290407 In this paper, I am going to talk about an essential belief of Christianity which is people are made in the image of God. In the text book, the meaning of the image of God is death with three approaches of examining the meaning of the image of God. These approaches are “Christology from above” approach, “Christology from below” approach, and “Christology from behind” approach. These are defined by theologians “to examine who he is and what he does (his work).” Moreover, I…

Discussing what is the image of God in humanity is a very complicated topic. The reason why it is complicated is because the Bible never clearly mentions what exactly does it mean to be created in the image of God. As a result, all people can do is try their best to interpret what the Bible does say, and pray to God that he will bless those with divine revelation of what the scripture says. One of the people can try and see what the image of God refers to in mankind, is by comparing man to other…

Introduction At the climax of creation, “God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” (Gen. 1:27 NIV) The Baker handbook says that, “Although scholars are divided over the exact meaning of the “image of God,” it probably includes several things: we are similar to God in several aspects (spiritual, emotional and relational) and we have been appointed as His representatives to administer His creation.” All of humanity was created in…

What is the image of God? This is a question that may never be completely understood for many different reasons, but the subject matter is of utter importance. “Being God’s image not only qualifies one as a human person but is also a major reason why human life is so sacred.” Every human life deserves to be treated equally because they are made in God’s image. Several different groups in history have been treated inhumanely because people thought they lacked the image. If the church takes a…

Defining the image of God is not an easy task. A major reason for this fact is the lack of the phrase within the Biblical text. Even though the term is not found often within Scripture, many places do point to the idea of the image without using the exact words. There is the possibility that Scripture often deals with the concept of the image of God without using those exact words, so that we surely should not a prior limit our investigation of the concept to considering only those places…

The image of God is more complex than seeing ourselves in His image from a physical standpoint. God has created us in his image so that we can enter into relationships with others and live out what that image looks like. Every person has their own impairment or flaws within their own life. As humans, I do not believe that we have the capacity to be like Christ fully because we are human and do not have the capacity to be perfect like Christ. However, we do all have the capacity to be in the…

one be created in the image of God? The big problem with this statement is that Jews and Christians believe humans are created in the image of God, but how is one created in the image of God? The biblical statement can mean created in the image of God, physically, mentally, etc. However, can one be created in the image of God if they are not born again because they are still in disobedience and their sinful life? Religiously, the statement that humans are made in the image of God is not clear.…

Education in the Image of God Susanne Johnson attended a conference with the theme “Mid-Career Burnout.” The question was why so many living in abundance are and have great achievement so discontent? Its verses were boredom, stress, emptiness, exhaustion, loneliness, and dissatisfaction. The writer asks the questions of why is the good life which human have achieved in the twentieth century, so bad that only news of world catastrophes, assassination, plane crashes, mass murders, can divert one…

An image alone has the ability to be worth a thousand words, but paired together with poetry, it expresses much more. Emily Dickinson, an American poet, created true works of art that often had ambiguous meaning. Dickinson’s poetry continuously constructed dominant images that, needless to say, didn’t need illustrations. Emily Dickinson’s Civil War poems specifically, contain descriptions of graphic images that also fit well with the photo taken by American Photographer, Timothy H. O’Sullivan.…