Image Bearing

I posted at Out of the Ordinary this morning on what it means to be made in God’s image.

The bottom line is that human beings were created with qualities that reflect God. We are copies of our maker in ways that the rest of God’s creatures aren’t. At the climax of creation, God set apart his next creative act with these words, “Let us make man in our image,” and he did exactly that. Male and female—all humankind—were created as image-bearers, and that gives us status and value above all the other creatures. 

Read the whole post, which is one of a series of posts on truths every Christian woman should know. Here are the previous posts:

1. God Has Spoken (posted at the True Woman Blog)
2. God Is Three and God Is One
3. God Is Who He Is
4. God Had a Plan
5. God Created the Universe

This Week in Housekeeping

I’ve only had time to update one theological term this week.

mediator

• Removed dead links.
• Updated the link to S. Lewis Johnson’s The Offices of Christ.
• Added links to What does it mean that Jesus is our mediator? at GotQuestions.org, One God, One Mediator by R. C. Sproul, and Sam Waldron’s Christ the Only Mediator (mp3).
• Added related terms deity of Christ, humanity of Christ, high priestly prayer of Jesus, priest (as an office of Christ), threefold office(s) of Christ.
• Added Filed under Person, Wor,k and Teaching of Christ.

Theological Term of the Week

epistle
A New Testament letter from an apostle to a congregation or individual. Of the New Testament books, all but Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts and Revelation are epistles.

• From the Epistle to the Galatians, Paul’s greeting and closing blessing:

Paul, an apostle—not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—and all the brothers who are with me, 

To the churches of Galatia: 

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. (Galatians 1:1-5 ESV)

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen. (Galatians 6:18 ESV)

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