Re: [asa] Edinburgh mtg--Alexander

In response to Dick Fischer's comments about the image of God in humans.

How do you decide who has the Image of God and who does not? What about those who commit atrocities in war, whether the execution of Allied soldiers in the Battle of the Bulge in 1944 or My Lai?
Have Ken Ham or PZMyers got the Image of God? Stalin, Bresnev or Gorbachev?

I am afraid you are speaking rank nonsense. All Christian teaching as stemming from the Bible teaches that all humans without exception are in the Image of God, and because of sin that is distorted.

The Image of God brings out the absolute God-given value of every human being and their responsibility before God. It is distorted not removed by sin and all who read this have their Image of God distorted by their sin. Only through Christ the perfect Image of God can our distorted Image be straightened out.
The logic of your position is that we can see as subhuman those we consider not to have the Image of God, and thus exterminate them as dear Adolf got rid of Jews, Poles and Slavs.

Think again Dick, it is more important to see every human being however awful as in the Image and Likeness of God than trying to locate Adam in 9678BC.

Your beliefs are very scary indeed and I prefer both Ken Ham's and Bishop Spong's

I am appalled

Michael

dick Fischer wrote;
   
  On the other, other hand, if every hominid who breathed air in the last million years is in God's image then it includes Jeffrey Dahmer, the Boston strangler, Osama Bin Laden, and other characters of dubious reputation. Somehow I can't bring myself to believe that when Paul told us Christ was in the image of God that he thought it lumped him in with pedophiles and axe murderers. Certainly it is a category more esteemed than that.

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Received on Sat Sep 1 04:19:25 2007