Man is the only creature on earth that was created in the image and likeness of God. God is a Spirit, and they that worship Him must do it in spirit according to His truth. In the Image of God will teach you the difference between soul and spirit as well as describe the true nature and purpose of your body. Major emphasis is devoted to the spirit of man in this book and how to develop it to its full potential for God.
Hoekema discusses the implications of this theme, devoting several chapters to the biblical teaching on God's image, the teaching of philosophers and theologians through the ages, and his own theological analysis.
One reader commented: "After fifty years of being a Christian and doing lots of Bible study, this book gave me the clearest understanding of the Trinity and their interaction with me.
For identification of the 'world-ruler' with the devil in John 12:31, 14:30, see George R. Beasley-Murray, John, WBC (Mexico: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2000), 263; Jutta Leonhardt-Balzer, “The Ruler of the World, Antichrists and ...
But Jesus, who is the image of God, restores the divine image in us. At the intersection of theology and culture, these essays offer a unified vision of what it means to be truly human and created in the divine image in the world today.
This book's bright artwork and lyrical text, written by the bestselling author of Psalms for Young Children, explores how, even though we cannot see or touch God, we can still discover him in our world.
Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilkio Rodriguez (Washington, D.C.: ICS Publications, 1991), p. 722. 18See Dallas Willard, Hearing God (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1999), and Gordon Smith, Listening to God in Times of Choice (Downers ...
Reenchanting Humanity is a work of systematic theology that focuses on the doctrine of humanity.
In 1997, the late Carl Sagan's 1985 novel, Contact, was released as a major motion picture starring Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey. This was intellectual sci-fi at its best. The story surrounds Foster's character, who has devoted ...
What does it mean to be human and made in the image of God? This collection of essays explores the question from a wide range of theological and philosophical perspectives.
This symposium, a fruit of a World Council of Churches initiative, is discussed in Mayland, 1999; Macaskill, 2003: 211; Rogerson, 2010: 192. 104. Davies-John, 2003: 124. 105. For Emil Brunner (1952:57), the 19 Much Is at Stake: The ...