This is Jonathan Collins and you're listening to the Bible Project Podcast.

This is the last of a three-part series where I've been discussing the theme of the image

of God with Tim Mackey, who I work with here at the Bible Project.

We wrapped up this conversation to the image God in the last episode, but I felt still

kind of uneasy.

I pulled Tim back into the recording room and I was telling him, Tim, I feel really confused

and I kept using the word dizzy.

I felt disequilibrated.

I had lost this conception of, hey, we exist just to glorify God and enjoy Him, whatever

that means.

And that now needs to be replaced by this richer idea of representing God on earth as

His co-creators moving the human project forward.

And so this left me with a lot more questions.

I wanted to dig in more, so we do that here in the final episode of the image of God.

I hope you enjoy.

Here we go.

Okay, so as we were talking last time about the image of God, we started talking about

how this understanding of the word perfect and how we put on the narrative of Genesis 1 and

2 that things were perfect.

And by perfect, I typically mean, I think other people mean, there was no conflict or another

way to think about it is you got everything you could desire.

You desired it and then you got it.

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