Things Unseen with Sinclair B. Ferguson

Our Identity: The Image of God

Jan 10, 2024

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This podcast explores the concept of the Image of God and its connection to our identity. It highlights how denying God's existence leads to an identity crisis. The episode discusses the ideas of theologians Bavink and Kuiper and emphasizes the importance of knowing one's identity as a Christian.

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Denying the existence of God not only removes Him from our worldview but also collapses our own identity.

Being a Christian offers the blessing of knowing who one is and what one is for: to know, trust, love, serve, and be with God.

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The Interconnectedness of Creation and Divine Revelation

The podcast explores the idea that since the entire creation is a revelation of God, nothing is ultimately atheistic. In the creation account in Genesis, humans are made in the image of God to reflect and imitate Him. This means that humans are both spectators and actors in the theater of divine revelation. The revelation of God surrounds us and even invades us, as God has set eternity in our hearts. Denying the existence of God not only removes God from our worldview but also collapses our own identity.

The Image of God and the Collapse of Identity

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One of the blessings of being Christians today is that, unlike people all around us, we know who we are and why we're here. Today, Sinclair Ferguson explains why a denial of God's existence inevitably results in an identity crisis.

Read the transcript: https://ligonier.org/podcasts/things-unseen-with-sinclair-ferguson/our-identity-the-image-of-god

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