The Image of God
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
People often look at the issues of abortion, euthanasia, and capital punishment in political terms. But these are profoundly theological issues. Today, R.C. Sproul looks at the foundation of human life and dignity: the image of God.
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Meet Today's Teacher:
R.C. Sproul (1939-2017) was known for his ability to winsomely and clearly communicate deep, practical truths from God's Word. He was founder of Ligonier Ministries, first minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew's Chapel, first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.
Meet the Host:
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, host of the Ask Ligonier podcast, and a graduate of Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, Australia. Nathan joined Ligonier in 2012 and lives in Central Florida with his wife and four children.
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| 0:00.0 | There's a lot of debate among theologians, but there's no debate in scripture. |
| 0:04.4 | Scripture unambiguously clearly teaches that after the fall, |
| 0:10.9 | man is still in the image of God. |
| 0:14.0 | Why do Christians believe in the |
| 0:20.0 | why do Christians believe in the sanctity of human life? |
| 0:24.4 | Why did the Old Testament prescribe capital punishment |
| 0:27.8 | for those who commit murder? |
| 0:29.8 | Because all people are made in the image of believe, our status in life, whether we're inside |
| 0:40.0 | or outside of the womb have dignity. |
| 0:43.0 | Welcome to the Saturday edition of renewing your mind. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm your host, Nathan W Bingham. |
| 0:50.0 | As we said last Saturday, people today have an identity crisis. |
| 0:54.5 | People don't know what it means to be human. |
| 0:57.5 | They can't explain why humans have worth, |
| 1:00.0 | and they can't agree why or if human life is more valuable than animals in a zoo. |
| 1:06.0 | So we're spending Saturdays working through RC Sproll's series A Shattered Image. |
| 1:12.0 | You can own this series and study guide and we'll send you |
| 1:15.0 | Dr Sproll's book The Hunger for Significance when you give a donation of any |
| 1:19.2 | amount at renewing your mind.org. So let's consider what it means when the Bible says |
| 1:25.5 | that we are made in the image of God. |
| 1:28.1 | In our first session in our study of the doctrine of man, we had a little historical reconnaissance |
| 1:36.6 | where we skated lightly over various ways in which people have attempted to define our humanity in the biological sense or in the |
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