Biblical unitarians often face the stock objection that according to us Jesus is a “mere man”–that is, a human who is not also divine, disparagingly described as “mere.” This objection assumes that a human only Jesus couldn’t possibly do all that is ascribed to him in the New Testament.
But as Anna Shoffner Brown shows in this insightful original presentation from the 2022 UCA Conference in Ohio, the biblical teaching that humankind is made in God’s image means that we, and so the human Jesus, can represent God and work on his behalf on the earth.
We mustn’t think too highly of human beings, but also, we mustn’t think too lowly of a race of beings who are made in God’s image.
Links for this episode:
the original video (other videos from the 2022 UCA Conference)
UCA Podcast 6. Working at the Colson Center – Anna Brown (all UCA Podcast episodes)
The 2023 UCA Conference in Springfield, Ohio
Compass Christian Church in Louisville, Kentucky
LHIM – Living Hope International Ministries
Christ Before Creeds – Dale Tuggy, Sean Finnegan, Anna Brown & Jeff Deuble
podcast 335 – Pastor Jeff Deuble’s Christ Before Creeds
Restitutio Podcast 408 Christ before Creeds Book (Jeff Deuble)
This week’s thinking music is “Southfolk 1st Division” by Marco Trovatello.
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