Carmen Imes – Being God’s Image

What does it mean to be human? Every human being is created in God’s image.

Brent and Ian talk with Carmen Imes the author of a new IVP book ‘Being God’s Image: Why Creation Still Matters’.

Carmen is associate professor of Old Testament at Biola University in the States.  She’s the author of a number of books and is a regular contributor to ‘The Well’, a fellow of ‘Every Voice’ and serves on the advisory council for the Bible Literacy Conference.

• (1:30) Entering the wardrobe;
• (3:15) The Image Dei. What is it?
• (5:40) Our embodiment;
• (7:30) The creation account. What were humans created to do?
• (8:50) Did we lose the image of God?
• (10:00) What it means to be God’s image;
• (12:30) Wisdom literature. Why we need wisdom;
• (13:10) The Song of Solomon;
• (18:30) Ecclesiastes and the image of God;
• (22:00) How Jesus fulfills the image of God;
• (23:55) Our bodies and resurrection;
• (25:00) Disability.

Links mentioned in this episode:

www.amazon.com/Being-Gods-Image-Creation-Matters/dp/1514000202

www.ivpress.com

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