the covenants, and it serves as the means for carrying forward God’s blessing of human life to the rest of the world. Dynasty, also, is the means by which humans carry out the creational vocation of becoming the stewards of the whole earth, which mediates God’s blessing to the whole earth. Genesis 1 is the most natural place to begin in a study of the image and its meaning. After the creation of the rest of the world, God creates human beings. When he creates them, he has in mind the image for which
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