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Democracy is in Danger: Should Christians Care?

Good Faith

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Why Christians Should Defend Institutions as Image Bearing Beings

i am just going to go back to colossians one 15 18, which says, the sun is the image of the invisible god. It turns out institutions, powers, rulers and authorities image god. And so that's why christians ought to care, because these institutions are human expressions of how humans bear the image of god. An image doesn't have to be completely conflated with the thing it's imaging. What an image does is it reflects key characteristics of that person being image. So for example, a hospital, rit a hospital is an institution that, by the way, was invented by christians. They created those into into being. Why? Because they want to image

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