Lutheran theologians have been positive that man through the fall lost the image of God completely: “Lutheran thinking assumes that this ‘image of God’ as well as the ‘righteousness given with creation’ were lost through the Fall. It is not considered to be part of man’s creaturely structure which indestructibly survives also in the sinner. This interpretation sees man, at one and the same moment, as creature and sinner, but as the bearer of the image of God only in the state of original integrity