What Is Man?
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
What does it mean to be created in God’s image, made male and female, united in body and soul? Without answers won’t understand our identity, and why we do what we do. In this brief booklet—part of the Basics of the Faith series—A. Craig Troxel provides clear exposition in a basic overview of these issues.
Top Highlights
“Fallen man may still retain the image formally, but he no longer reflects the excellence of his Maker” (Page 10)
“Broadly speaking, the image of God pertains to the spiritual nature or faculties of humanity” (Page 9)
“Since man is made in the image of God, this likeness involves all of man’s faculties, powers, and person, including his body, or the ‘outer nature’” (Page 13)
“covenantal relationship was not just between God and Adam and Eve, but through Adam with the entire human race” (Page 17)
“The body reflects the wonder of what constitutes humanity as much as the soul” (Page 13)