Being God’s Image: Why Creation Still Matters (Video)
Overview
What does it mean to be human? This timeless question proves critical as we seek to understand our purpose, identity, and significance. Amidst the many voices clamoring to shape our understanding of humanity, the Bible reveals important truths related to our human identity and vocation that are critical to the flourishing of all of creation.
In this course, Carmen Joy Imes seeks to recover the theologically rich message of the creation narratives starting in the book of Genesis as they illuminate what it means to be human. Every human being is created as God’s image. Imago Dei is our human identity, and God appointed humans to rule on God’s behalf. Being God’s Image explores the implications of this kinship relationship with God and considers what it means for our work, our gender relations, our care for creation, and our eternal destiny. The Bible invites us into a dramatically different quality of life: a beloved community in which we can know God and one another as we are truly known.
The course is based on the book Being God’s Image (InterVarsity Press).
- Explores the timeless question of what it means to be human
- Recovers the theological message of Genesis creation narratives on human identity
- Examines the implications of being created in God’s image for various aspects of life
- Session 1 (9 min)
- Session 2 (10 min)
- Session 3 (10 min)
- Session 4 (10 min)
- Session 5 (11 min)
- Session 6 (11 min)
- Session 7 (13 min)
- Session 8 (9 min)
- Session 9 (11 min)
- Session 10 (12 min)
- Epilogue (1 min)