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I believe that what you are expressing is something that a lot of us have in common. It is perhaps the greatest reason why Christians are more and more hesitant to take a stand for the gospel. It is a spirit of fear that prevents us from letting go of our worldly comforts. "for God gave us a...

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Hello, I am not familiar with your history on this forum, but you seem to be genuine in your pursuit. You say that "grace doesn't seem to be happening with you." Forgive me if I am wrong, but I would assume that there have been many people that have been gracious enough to answer your questions...

The example of the love a mother has for her child is absolutely a reflection of God, and our capacity to understand what it means to receive love from God, and then to reflect that love to others is an example of the image of God. God originally created us to be a merger of the spiritual and...

I would say that the image of God refers to our capacity to receive, comprehend, and display the attributes of God to the world. We are Gods' representation, acting on His behalf on the earth. The image of God is not simply referring to human cognition, it is more like our day to day actions in...

If anyone believes that they cannot be saved because of their sin, I would ask them what they believe Jesus died for. He died for sinners. Any victory we have over sin is not the result of our struggle and our fight, it is His fight, it is His victory. We do not fight our sin so that we can...

I think that what Paul is saying is that Christ died, not only that we might live in Him, but that we might also die in Him. As human beings, we are sinful. The punishment for sin is death, all men are sinful, therefore all men die because we have broken God's law. When we die, justice has been...

I would say that we all have a duty to promote what is true over what is false to the best of our ability. However, due to the fact that we have limited, imperfect knowledge, leading to differences between truth claims for different groups or individuals, we ought to approach truth with a degree...

Whether one interprets the narrative literally or symbolically, the reason God created the woman out of the man was because He wants us to understand that we are all unified in our origins. God created one human, then He split the human in two. The man and the woman are meant to act out the...

First of all, let us realize that consistency works both ways in this instance. Reusing common parts is perfectly consistent with a common designer. Even when it comes to genetic inheritance and biological evolution, there are some who would say that the biological distinctions, as well as the...

I agree. Only Christ was the perfect representation of God. Even the best of us human beings, christian or not, mess up and fail. Christians are not perfect, we misrepresent God all the time. Our human bodies are limited and weak and not capable of fully aligning with Gods standard without help...

No. Evil is a corrupted representation of God. Those who do evil are trespassers, taking what is Gods and using it in service to that which is not God.

Likeness, representatives, mirror of His nature. According to the bible this is what we are, but that doesn't mean that we can't use these attributes to misrepresent God.

Arms, legs, hands, feet, male, female, does God have physical attributes? Or maybe there is more to it than physical.

God is spirit. What does He look like?

What do you think the image of God should mean? Have you done biblical research and come to a different conclusion than I have? I have no problem being corrected by an atheist if they can show me my error. According to the bible, the image of God is simple. We are created in order to communicate...

I do not believe the image of God is a moral thing specifically. We were created to be Gods proxy, His representatives in the terrestrial realm, and though that includes moral representation, the image of God is more about the kind of beings we are, what our purpose is, and the value we have to...

As a point of clarity, the presence of God in my life has not and will not translate to me living a perfect moral life in the physical here and now. This is a common misconception about what Christian perfection is. God is the perfect one, not me. If I am with Him, His perfection is my...

We ARE perfect WITH God. Apart from God, who IS life, the image of God is corrupted, therefore life is corrupted in us, and we ARE dead because it is no longer in our nature to live. When God sentences someone to death, He is not taking their life away. Whatever life they had is sourced in God...

A forced friendship sounds like an oxymoron to me. If God wants us to love one another, we have to choose to act on behalf of those we love, and if our actions are not the result of our free choices, we cannot say we love each other, and our friendships reflect nothing of God. You say you would...