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Magisterial, up-to-date study of human beings in the image of God. Misunderstandings about what it means for humans to be created in God’s image have wreaked devastation throughout history—for example, slavery in the U. S., genocide in Nazi Germany, and the demeaning of women everywhere. In Dignity and Destiny John Kilner explores what the Bible itself teaches about humanity being in God’s...

that sin badly damages these excellences, likenesses, and differences.111 As such assumptions compound, the resulting view of being in God’s image becomes increasingly far removed from the way that the Bible employs this idea. Because being in God’s image is not a matter of current variable attributes such as reason, righteousness, rulership, or relationship (see Ch. 5), all people without exception can be—and are—in the image of God. This glorious truth grounds human dignity and human destiny, and
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