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Image of God Part 3: The Garden Was Not Perfect

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The Biblical Story Challenges Our Idea of the Perfect World

The idea of being in partnership with God as image-bearers who reign on his behalf only really makes sense when you have this narrative. So to understand what it means to be the image of God in Genesis 1 before the tree of the knowledge, good and evil, you have to have room in your brain that says there is a state or there is a time in the story where there's a connection to God. But anytime there's exploring and building and those kinds of things, there's conflict. You can't explore without conflict. And I think the biblical story challenges our idea of the perfect world that had no trouble or conflict or mosquitoes before the fall of humanity.

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