The ISCAST Tree
Helen Joynt, September 2008.

                                                                                                        
In Christian circles we do a lot of talking about how human beings bear the ‘image of God’. The Genesis 1 creation account sets people apart from the rest of creation by asserting that God made human beings —men and women—in God’s likeness. And it is not surprising to find this singling out of human beings since the Scriptures were written for people—to read, meditate on, to hear God’s voice in. But I rather suspect that everything that comes from the creative power of God bears the imprint of his nature, his character. There is a sense in which every part of creation bears the image of God.

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