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In His Image                                                

Genesis 1:24-27

Genesis, chapter 1, verse 24.

“And God said, ’Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds––livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.’ And it was so. And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Then 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 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.”

Verse 28: “And God blessed them. And God said to them, ’Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.’

And God said, ’Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.’ And it was so. And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.”

1. Imago Dei, the image of God

2. Our relationship toward one another is different. 

3. What are the implications of the imago Dei?  

4. Human dignity is above everything else in the creative order.

5. What does this mean?   It matters how we view humanity.

6. Where the Imago Dei is not understood, it is the weak and the vulnerable who are abused and consumed. 

7. Because the imago Dei is true, men must view women biblically.

8. In the same way, women must think biblically about men.

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