Image of God

doctrine · 19 episodes

229For the Love of Storytelling - Featuring Nate Morgan Locke, the Reformed Mythologist 10 Nov 2025 3:36¶ 12 “He asks this question a lot because it’s a fun question. Knowing that we bear the image of God, and that is in the…” 26:20¶ 85 “Yes. We go back to ‘made in the image of God’ without even trying to. We haven’t got anything else to play with, in…” 17:23¶ 58 “What’s the connection here? The connection is God the Creator, the Storyteller made man in his image, and God writing a book. You obviously…”

201Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Ethics according to Plato 5 Aug 2024 36:52¶ 110 “But when you think about man realistically, which is to say biblically, man is the image of God. We’re told that. “Let’s make man…” 37:15¶ 112 “And replenish the earth. Have children, have children, have children, or to put it a little more roughly, “Have sex, have sex, have sex.…” 37:44¶ 113 “Going back, Rachel, to some of the things you said earlier, we have a culture that despises the body and bodily existence. It doesn’t…”

178The World Before the Flood 29 Jan 2024 22:50¶ 64 “When we look at these generations and see this development, it reminds us that the image of God is creative, and also humbles us…” 23:25¶ 65 “It also helps to decrease our fear, because see wars or we see these things happening and we think, “Oh no, it’s never happened…” 38:57¶ 109 “Man was made in the image of God. Man rebelled against God. God intervened with this thing called grace, which is at work within…”

175Be Fruitful and Multiply 11 Jan 2024 12:06¶ 35 “I faced this back when I was in college, talking to an Intervarsity leader. I don’t remember very well how it all came about,…” 12:42¶ 36 “So knowledge – let’s see, knowing and learning and understanding, without a head or brain. That might be difficult. Living out God’s commandments and…” 18:46¶ 52 “I want to add something that maybe was implicit in what you said, but I’d like to make it a little more explicit. I’ve…”

174In the Beginning... Again 4 Jan 2024 37:12¶ 130 “There’s more but that’s a good place to stop. He mentions man – “Let’s make man” – but immediately it’s “in our image.” Man…” 38:21¶ 132 “How do we know what the image of God is? We read the Westminster Standards. That’s great, but Adam didn’t have those. The Westminster…” 38:48¶ 133 “He’s an artist. He’s an artisan. He’s an engineer. He builds things – complex beautiful things. There’s an aesthetic dimension to all of this.…”

153A New Law (Part 2) 16 Jan 2023 2:24¶ 9 “Man is the image of God. Man was not simply made the image of God and then lost it all. He continues to be…”

125Unity 4 Jul 2022 13:23¶ 52 “I like what you were saying – they don’t have book knowledge. No, they are the book. God has imposed his own image upon…”

123Loving Them 20 Jun 2022 32:38¶ 99 “Man is that being who has a conscious intelligible intelligent relationship with the living God, but who is so far beneath him on the…” 33:13¶ 100 “When the Bible begins to fill out this idea of the image of God, when Adam and Eve first heard this from God, they…” 33:27¶ 101 “Well, we kind of are. We kind of make things. And God made beautiful things and we want beauty. We want to beautify the…”

50Bonus - Panel Discussion on Christian Education 13 Dec 2020 1:16:31¶ 228 “Those first years are absolutely determinative, and to push it off and say, “Well, I’ll talk about theology and religion when my kid’s old…” 22:27¶ 82 “But the things that I have learned, if I had to distill them, the first thing is I think we have to assume that…”

43The Secret Theology of Pets 25 Oct 2020 9:15¶ 39 “Then we come to man, who is the very image of God, and in that sense is qualitatively differently from animals. I guess we…” 14:31¶ 57 “This is what God set before man, and there’s perfect harmony there but there’s not equality. The animals were not human, they were not…” 34:40¶ 135 “They are not humans. They’re not the image of God. They don’t go to our heaven upon their death, but they go someplace. Do…”

42The Metaphysics of Life 18 Oct 2020 15:48¶ 44 “We have plant life, which is more of a chemical thing. The Bible never speaks of plants having the breath of life or sentience…” 37:48¶ 130 “Two things. One, Christians have a standard, too. Are we saying that all unbelievers live that out? Of course not, because they’re the image…” 42:52¶ 143 “We don’t throw out the creation. One day God will redeem the whole of creation, so Christians are poised to be a voice for…”

41The Metaphysics of Fatherhood 11 Oct 2020 27:46¶ 93 “Obviously – well, maybe not obviously to some, but if you go back and read Genesis 1 and Genesis 4, in both places it…” 28:14¶ 94 “The more obvious place where we see the male/female thing played out, but it’s secondary – we have to keep the first first –…” 4:21¶ 13 “When God made us, when he made man in his image, and introduced into humanity, into creation, this idea of fatherhood and sonship, he’s…”

37Image and Word (part 1) 13 Sep 2020 24:07¶ 80 “We go back to the very first chapter of the Bible and what do we see? We see God making an image of himself…” 25:03¶ 83 “We have the image of God in man, and we are to honor that image in one another. That’s why murder is such a…” 26:28¶ 86 “It is God’s nature to reveal himself, so when he made man in his image it was not a strange or bizarre kind of…”

35Polytheism and Pluralism (part 1) 30 Aug 2020 19:27¶ 60 “The catechisms and confessions define the image of God rather narrowly in obedience to scripture. We think of knowledge, righteousness, true holiness, and dominion.…” 18:46¶ 59 “We have somehow ended up with multiple kinds of silverware in our drawer. They don’t all come from the same set, and sometimes we…” 24:06¶ 77 “God made man as his image and then said, “Have lots and lots of children, lots. Remember when I said lots? Lots. Be fruitful…”

19He Looked For a City 10 May 2020 18:19¶ 62 “Okay, if that’s all it means that’s great, but are we all in the image of God in exactly the same way? What do…” 18:27¶ 63 “Knowledge, righteousness, true holiness and dominion.” 18:29¶ 64 “Okay. Do you know what I know? Do I know what you know? Do we know what she knows? Are we as holy as…”

16Of One Blood 19 Apr 2020 7:18¶ 18 “Man is made in the image of God, and although there is great diversity in that, there is no place where you can draw…” 7:51¶ 19 “The Bible will have none of that. The diversity of the image of God is not inferiority, it is simply spectacular beauty, something we’ve…” 34:00¶ 93 “We started by talking about the wonderful diversity of the image of God in man. Every nation is different from every other nation, and…”

11Guilt and Self-Atonement 15 Mar 2020 21:40¶ 71 “Indeed. It sounds suspiciously like echoes of what scripture calls the image of God in man – true knowledge, knowledge of the truth, righteousness…” 20:06¶ 67 “If we look at this, yes, sin is abusive. Wow, surprise, surprise! It’s an attack on God because it’s a refusal to submit to…” 6:30¶ 20 “This is where paganism gets caught. They have the inner sense, the feeling, the impress of the image of God that says there’s a…”

9Dominion 1 Mar 2020 6:59¶ 17 “This idea of God replicating his image a million-billion-fold in this finite space we call earth, that’s what the whole thing is emphasizing, and…” 8:13¶ 20 “What they had most was Genesis 1, that section of scripture that calls itself the generations of the heavens and the earth, the part…” 8:58¶ 21 “They wouldn’t have a shorthand theological formula yet, though maybe they came up with one eventually, but at this point they would have the…”

8Man in the Cave 23 Feb 2020 25:30¶ 76 “As Christians we say, with Chesterton, man is the image of God. The Bible opens with Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning God created.” Before…” 33:26¶ 97 “Again we’re back to this idea of man as the image of God, which is what Genesis tells us he is. We need to…” 33:55¶ 98 “When he gets to the point of, “And so I created you in my image,” they look at each other and say, “Oh, so…”