Being God's Image (with Carmen Imes)

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

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🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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What exactly does it mean to say that we are in the image of God? How should that idea impact how we view things like our identity, our work, sexuality, body image, disability and transgender issues? We’ll talk about these and much more with our colleague Dr. Carmen Imes and her new book, Being God’s Image. Dr. Carmen Imes is Associate Professor Old Testament at Talbot. She brings a passion for helping students and other laypeople engage the Old Testament and discover its relevance for ...

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0:00.0	What exactly does it mean to say that we are made in the image of God?
0:06.2	How should that idea impact how we view things like our identity, our work, sexuality,
0:11.7	our body image, things like that? We'll talk about these and much more with our
0:15.1	colleague today Dr Carmen Ims and her new book being God's image I'm your
0:20.2	host Scott Ray I'm your co-host Sean McDow. This is Think Biblical from tablet
0:24.0	school theology here at Biola University. So Carmen,
0:26.9	thanks so much for being with us.
0:28.1	Delighted to have you here and congrats on the book.
0:31.4	Thank you.
0:32.1	Thanks for having me. So what motivated you to write on this subject?
0:36.1	You're an Old Testament scholar.
0:37.3	You got lots of things, lots of really interesting things
0:39.2	you could talk about.
0:40.7	Why this one?
0:41.7	Why is it important to you? Yeah, this actually happened for me kind of in reverse so I was doing a podcast interview after my first book came out on bearing God's name and an interviewer asked me what's an idea that needs to die in
0:57.1	the church or in biblical scholarship. It was a great question and right away I knew what I
1:01.9	wanted to say and that was that we go to heaven when we die.
1:06.4	Like that we asked Jesus into our heart so that we can go to heaven when we die.
1:09.6	Like this way of kind of recapping the gospel message was anemic and needed to be set aside for a
1:16.4	more robust biblical vision of the new creation and human embodiment in that new creation.
1:22.4	And I realized that in order to make that point,
1:25.0	I would have to start at the beginning with creation
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