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What does it mean to be created in God’s image, made male and female, united in body and soul? Without answers won’t understand our identity, and why we do what we do. In this brief booklet—part of the Basics of the Faith series—A. Craig Troxel provides clear exposition in a basic overview of these issues.

Those that would separate the body and the soul may qualify for Scripture’s barbed rebukes against Gnosticism, which denigrates or reproaches the body. Those that would overly meld the body and the soul may be guilty of physicalism, which views humanity as composed of one part and understates the danger of forfeiting the soul (Matt. 16:26). Although man was “pinched off from a piece of clay,” his body is yet important to God (Job 33:6; see also Gen. 2:7; 18:27; Ps. 103:14). Since man is made in the
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