This is the Bible project. I'm John Collins and I'm going to be talking with Tim Mackey

about the image of God. This is the first of a three or four part series on this theme

in the Bible, the image of God. This theme pops up in Genesis 1, first page of the Bible.

It's actually in the first poem in the Bible. What God had just created mankind and then this

poem begins and says, so God created mankind in his own image. In the image of God, he

created them, male and female, he created them. So Tim and I are going to talk about what does

that mean to be made in the image of God and it's not what I expected. It's really changed

my paradigms for how I read the scripture and how I think about myself and why I'm on earth.

Oh also, you're going to hear my buddy Brian Hall using the studio with us as we recorded

this conversation so you might hear him pipe up here and there. Brian wrote the music that you're

listening to right now. We made a YouTube video about the image of God. It's on a YouTube channel

come March 2016, but in the meantime, enjoy image of God part one.

All right, Tim is drinking some coffee. You're going to hear that.

In the studio audience is Brian Hall, my good friend Brian. So feel free to chime in.

Hi, Brian at any time. We're going to talk about the image of God, which is going to be a new

theme video that we're going to do. So this is we usually spend a couple hours. Tim walks me through

his notes before we actually write the script. So let's do this. Let us do image of God. Image of God.

In other cultures, this phrase image of God was used for kings. And so a king would be called

the image of God. You'd find it on their statues or you'd find it inscribed for them because they

ruled on God's behalf over that's right. Everyone else. Yeah, yeah. Or in Egypt and Babylon, the kings

were the embodiment of the God, meaning they were a God. They were a God. Yeah, they were

deified. So being in the image of God actually meant just being God and being a physical

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