examine religious views of the nature of human life
Examine religious views of the nature of human life
Christians tend to begin looking at the Bible to get such views of the nature of human life. It would seemingly begin in Genesis and notable Theologians nearly always begin with the Bible’s primary book when examining the nature of human life, the notable book ‘What is Man?’ written by Gresham Machen summarizes examples from biblical material, thus highlighting the trend.
The first fundamental religious view of human life is the one that man was made in the image of God. This view is deriven from Genesis 1:26-27 ‘Then God said, “Let us make man in our own image, in our likeness…” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them’. From this you can see that this phrase Imageo Dei is unique to human beings and is not used for any other creation of God, thus showing that man is a unique creation and incredibly significant. Furthermore, due to what this phrase is, shows that man has a special connection to God unlike any other of his creations, and might be seen as humans being a counterpart that God primarily created for fellowship. This phrase also can show that such a description of human life shows we are sacred as it is clearly a sin for one to persecute God and is blasphemy, human’s being in the image of God suggests that all human life must be seen as sacred and each person to be treated fairly due to such a title being drawn onto us. This view of human’s being made in the image of God is not unique to Christianity, on which Judaism and Islam both agree.
‘Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.’ This is taken from Genesis 2:7 and is where Christians take their belief that man is not simply material but that God breathed the spirit of life into him. The spirit of life is a dualism combining matter and spirit together. Thus Christians see human
Christians tend to begin looking at the Bible to get such views of the nature of human life. It would seemingly begin in Genesis and notable Theologians nearly always begin with the Bible’s primary book when examining the nature of human life, the notable book ‘What is Man?’ written by Gresham Machen summarizes examples from biblical material, thus highlighting the trend.
The first fundamental religious view of human life is the one that man was made in the image of God. This view is deriven from Genesis 1:26-27 ‘Then God said, “Let us make man in our own image, in our likeness…” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them’. From this you can see that this phrase Imageo Dei is unique to human beings and is not used for any other creation of God, thus showing that man is a unique creation and incredibly significant. Furthermore, due to what this phrase is, shows that man has a special connection to God unlike any other of his creations, and might be seen as humans being a counterpart that God primarily created for fellowship. This phrase also can show that such a description of human life shows we are sacred as it is clearly a sin for one to persecute God and is blasphemy, human’s being in the image of God suggests that all human life must be seen as sacred and each person to be treated fairly due to such a title being drawn onto us. This view of human’s being made in the image of God is not unique to Christianity, on which Judaism and Islam both agree.
‘Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.’ This is taken from Genesis 2:7 and is where Christians take their belief that man is not simply material but that God breathed the spirit of life into him. The spirit of life is a dualism combining matter and spirit together. Thus Christians see human