Covenant Reformed News – January 2025 • Volume XX, Issue 9
This article from Covenant Reformed News examines whether unregenerate humans possess the image of God (imago dei), arguing against the majority Christian view that all people retain God's image in some degree. The author presents the first of several planned arguments demonstrating that fallen, unbelieving humans do not bear God's image, and shows how this error is being exploited to justify various unbiblical doctrines and deny scriptural truths like total depravity.
Are the Ungodly Really in God’s Image? (1) There are three parties that all professing Christians agree are in God’s image or the imago dei according to Scripture: first, the eternal and incarnate Son of God (II Cor. 4:4; Col. 1:15; Heb. 1:3), second, pre-fall Adam and Eve (Gen. 1:26-27; 5:1), and, third, all those born again by the Spirit of Christ (e.g., Eph. 4:24; Col. 3:10). But there is disagreement regarding unbelievers: Is fallen and unregenerate man in the image of God? This is the...