to a limited degree, and if some people have less reasoning or relational power, does that mean they are less in the image of God? Is “lesser in the image” even conceivable? Is someone with Alzheimer’s disease still in the image of God and still valued as such? People do not have value because they are useful or have potential but because they are humans. Humans have value, period.16 Because they have value, people can, if not debilitated, learn to be useful. Further, Scripture texts on the image
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