Jon Garvey Offers Suggestions to Mark Moore?

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And to shorten the process about where I am getting “Christ is the image of God” let me just drop this here for when Jon wakes up…

Christ is the Image of God - Asking the Wrong Questions

I think we have been asking the wrong questions in these debates about humanity and the image of God. We have been wrangling over issues about what makes us in the image of God and speculating about some mental level or what have you, which of course leads to issues like those raised in the heartbreaking stories (and I have them in my own family) from the “Disability and the Image of God” thread. Then comes the speculation about Neanderthals and other hominids and if they were “in the image of God”. Now I have mentioned what I write next before around here, and people have just seemed to not see it and go on as if it didn’t matter. That’s fine if you want to endlessly dialogue without making any progress, but I want to make progress. And to do that we must first define our terms. What is the Image of God? What does that even mean? Who has it and how is it obtained? It would be an enormous post if I laid it all out here, but I am going to lay enough of it out to make my point. That wa…