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Welcome to Day 1496 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.I am Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to WisdomImaging After The Fall and New Testament Application\xa0\u2013 Worldview WednesdayWisdom - the final frontier to true knowledge.\xa0Welcome to Wisdom-Trek! Where our mission is to create a legacy of wisdom, to seek out discernment and insights, to boldly grow where few have chosen to grow before. Hello, my friend, I am Guthrie Chamberlain, your captain on our journey to increase Wisdom and Create a Living Legacy.\xa0Thank you for joining us today as we explore wisdom on our 2nd millennium of podcasts. Today is Day 1496 of our Trek, and it is Worldview Wednesday.\xa0Creating a Biblical Worldview is essential to have a proper perspective on today\u2019s current events.\xa0To establish a Biblical Worldview, you must have a proper understanding of God and His Word.\xa0This week, on our Worldview Wednesday episode, we will continue our study based on a course I recently completed taught by Dr. Michael Heiser. Our study is titled \u201cSons and Daughters of God: The Believer\u2019s Identity, Calling, and Destiny\u201d Throughout this multi-week course, we will demonstrate that, in the Old Testament, \u201csons of God\u201d and \u201choly ones\u201d refers to supernatural beings whose Father is God and who work with God to carry out His will and that this divine family was present before humanity. By fully engaging with biblical texts such as Psalm 82; Psalm 89, and Deuteronomy 32:8\u20139, our study will show that this divine family functions as a template for God\u2019s human family. God desires of humans, as His imagers, to participate in His council. This study addresses issues such as polytheism, the nature of the (little \u2018g\u2019) \u201cgods,\u201d and Yahweh\u2019s uniqueness. This study will apply insights to the New Testament texts and show how the metaphor of being in God\u2019s family informs our sense of identity and mission as believers.
Imaging After The Fall and New Testament Application\xb7\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0Segment 26: Imaging After the Fall
Image Remains After The Fall
If the image of God is about us being representatives of God, the fall, the entrance of evil into the world, is certainly a factor in our understanding.\xa0Our understanding is that we continue with our purpose.\xa0I\u2019ve met Christians that believe that after the fall, the imaging idea was totally lost. Those Christians surmise the only people who image God now are Christians or believers because they\u2019ve been brought back to a relationship with God through redemption.\xa0I don\u2019t believe that. I think that\u2019s an inferior understanding of the text and leads to some dangerous theology.
For instance, in Genesis 9:6-7 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+9%3A6-7&version=NLT), which, of course, is after the fall, it\u2019s after the flood\u2014we read this, If anyone takes a human life, that person\u2019s life will also be taken by human hands. For God made human beings\xa0in his own image.\xa0Now be fruitful and multiply, and repopulate the earth.\u201d This is an obvious reference to Eden with the Edenic commands repeated. The commands that were originally given to Adam and Eve, the original imagers. The idea here is that the death penalty, taking the life of a person, is legitimized somehow, and we\u2019re going to find out in the rest of the Torah when that situation might be the case. That idea is legitimized because God cannot tolerate the unlawful, unwarranted taking of any human life. After all, those humans are created in His own image. When you kill a person, it\u2019s like killing God in effigy.
If the image were linked only to Christians or only believers, then this verse would, in effect, be saying, \u201cWell, it\u2019s only a crime if you kill someone who\u2019s a Christian. You can kill other people, and God is not going to care about it, but only if you kill His children, then we\u2019re in trouble.\u201d That\u2019s an absurdity, but this is where some thinking goes. We don\u2019t want to go there. We want...