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🗓️ 19 June 2023
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0:00.0 | Bill, we have some questions to catch up on. |
0:19.2 | We've gotten plenty. |
0:20.2 | One of your urge everyone to go to Question of the Week feature at ReasonableFate.org. |
0:25.3 | Your question may be answered already or some version of it. |
0:29.6 | I go to this question here from Taylor in the United States, dear Dr. Craig, in your |
0:34.5 | ReasonableFate podcast on dueling reviews for Historical Adam Book and the Part 2 podcast, |
0:42.3 | you stated, I think my characterization of the image of God is having faculties like rationality, |
0:48.8 | self-consciousness, freedom of the will and so forth is quite adequate to understand |
0:53.7 | what it means to be made in God's image. |
0:56.4 | We would have the implication that, yes, angels and demons are also created in the image |
1:00.8 | of God. |
1:01.8 | I see nothing objectionable about that biblically. |
1:05.4 | In fact, in Genesis 1, 26-27, when God creates man in His image and likeness, it's so interesting |
1:12.0 | that He uses the plural, let us make man in our image and likeness. |
1:18.0 | Many Old Testament commentators think that this is a reference to the angelic court to whom |
1:23.2 | God speaks, in that case, angels and fallen angels are also, like us, created in the |
1:30.2 | image of God. |
1:31.6 | My question is this. |
1:33.3 | Does this view not also imply that angels were involved in our creation? |
1:39.5 | And if so, would that at all diminish God's role as creator? |
1:46.2 | I think Taylor that would be an unjustified inference. |
1:50.1 | That would be reading something into the text. |
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