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The Indelible Image: The Theological and Ethical Thought World of the New Testament, Volume 2: The Collective Witness is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this second of two volumes, Ben Witherington explores the symbolic universe and the narrative thought world shared by all the New Testament writers, in an effort to discern how they might synthesize the theology and ethics within the New Testament as a whole. He proceeds by addition, looking first at the theology and ethics of Jesus and seeing how the New Testament writers add to and...

This is exactly correct. Human beings are supposed to be the “image” or “reflection” of the character of God on earth. God is holy, and so should we be. God is love, and so should we be. God is light, and so should we be. God is merciful, and so should we be. God is righteous, and so should we be. We were created to be the mirror image of God on earth, reflecting the divine character, but also engaging in the divine tasks, in a lesser and approximate sort of way. For example, the Genesis mandate
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