Covenant Reformed News – February 2025 • Volume XX, Issue 10
This article critiques the widespread theological view that unregenerate sinners bear God's image in some 'broader' sense, arguing that Scripture defines the imago dei specifically as knowledge, righteousness, and holiness possessed only by believers. The author employs exegetical and logical argumentation to demonstrate that positing two divine images in humanity—one for unbelievers and two for believers—lacks biblical foundation and contradicts Reformed confessional teaching.
Are the Ungodly Really in God’s Image? (2) Last time, we introduced the widespread but erroneous view that totally depraved sinners are in the image of the infinitely holy God in an alleged “broader” sense. To our previous critique we now add three more arguments. First, what about the nature of the divine image in man? The inspired Scriptures give us explicit statements as to the contents of the image of God in which the elect are recreated, and Adam and Eve were created (Eph. 4:24; Col....