Man does not simply bear or have the image of God; he is the image of God.
From the doctrine that man has been created in the image of God flows the clear implication that that image extends to man in his entirety. Nothing in man is excluded from the image of God. All creatures reveal traces of God, but only man is the image of God. And he is that image totally, in soul and body, in all faculties and powers, in all conditions and relationships. Man is the image of God because and insofar as he is true man, and he is man, true and real man, because and insofar as he is the image of God.
- Herman Bavinck [Translated: Anthony A. Hoekema]
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Grace and Peace
Ollie
Mar 2010
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