Elizabeth, Jane And Darcy's View Of The Image Of God

1. a) Elizabeth, Jane and Darcy talks about different understanding of the image of God. Elizabeth understands image of God as moral capacity, and believes that the person who has less moral capacity is not the image of God. However, Jane asserts that every human being whatever they did is created as the image of God. Darcy believes human beings have been evolved to be aggressive and violent creatures. Also Darcy asserts that since evolution is out of our power, the teenager boy doesn’t have any faults.

b) Elizabeth, your understanding of image of God seems to focus on moral capacity. You believe that the teenager boy doesn’t have moral capacity, so the boy is created as the image of God. Heidelberg Catechism also understands “the image
John Calvin and Mary McClintock Fulkerson emphasizes on the ethical implication of the image of God. Fulkerson says that Calvin’s understanding about the image of God is “a task and not simply a feature of human soul” (Fulkerson, 99). John Calvin talks about the relationship with others by talking about the image of God. Calvin says, “We are not to consider that men merit of themselves but to look upon the image of God in all men, to which we owe all honor and love” (Calvin Institutes, III, 6) Fulkerson also assert that we have a responsibility to response and live out our gratitude for God’s gifts. Fulkerson believes that our relationship with God connect to our relationship with neighbor (Fulkerson,
As Migliore says, human beings “find our identity in coexistence with each another and with all other creatures” (Migliore, 153). In the terrible incident, we should not end with blaming the teenager boy. We should think about our goal and meaning as the image of God what Migliore and Fulkerson says. We should see the image of God of all the human beings beyond what we can see with our eyes. When we see each other’s image of God, we will perform the task what Calvin says, and become close to the goal what Migliore says. However, we can’t just say the teenager boy did nothing wrong as Darcy said. Human beings have a free will to choose, but we have responsibility about our choices. Darcy, what you said, human beings do not have a responsibility, is dangerous. If we believe that we can’t control because we are evolved to be violent without our will, we will easily take over our fault to God and others rather than trying to live together with others in