The Impossible Property of Personhood

I don't think personhood is an objective category. I think it's a social construct that we make, and something like being made in the image of God is sort of a social construct or a calling that God makes. If there are any definitive lines, I don't think we would ever know them, but it would be up to God's will. So I mean, I follow someone like Joshua Moritz who sees being made inthe image of God similar to the election of Israel. What happens over and over again in the Hebrew Bible is that God says, okay, I chose you from among the nations, but not because you're special. Not because you're big, not because