quintessential image bearer. He is described as the image of the invisible God, reflecting this by his role in creation, fulfilling the law, forgiving sin, judging the world, and ultimately redeeming and recreating the cosmos. He accomplishes for the first time in human history (after the fall) the divinely ordained role of being God’s regent of the created order. Christ bears the image of God as no other human ever has. If image bearing is that which is distinctively human, then Christ is the most