
17. John Walton | More Than History
Language of God
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The Image of God and the Order of the World
The first mentioning of image of God is happening in Genesis 1 where we have all of this ordering going on. In the same way that there's an ordering or a functioning of the sun for the seasons, a function of the dry land and where all of these things are not a material creation but being ordered... Is image of God the ordering of our species in some sense then or assigning a function to our species? Yes, I think less ordering our species, more ordering how our species is going to interact in the world. That is as I understand the image of God, it's the idea that God has commissioned humanity to work alongside him in bringing order.
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