Yes, We're Created In The Image of God. Now What?
My response to activist Bible commentators who think "image of God" is license to say the Bible supports my politics and hates yours.
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My response to activist Bible commentators who think "image of God" is license to say the Bible supports my politics and hates yours.
whatiscalledthinking.substack.com/p/yes-were-cre…
1) The principle of the infinite value of human life may or may not be what Genesis is teaching.
2) The principle is vague and mostly non-instructive.
3) There are no objective criteria by which one can measure whether one is honoring the principle.
4) Ethical and political life are messy, conflictual, and rooted in prioritization, all of which make it impossible to enact the infinite value of human life.
5) At most, the principle is negative—it forbids wanton destruction and excess cruelty. But barring the sadist and the sociopath, can’t reasonable people disagree and disagree vastly about what constitutes wanton destruction and excess cruelty?
6) It seems implausible that the Bible’s message is basically the same as whatever ideology happens to be in vogue at the time of the interpreter. And if there is no point of disagreement between the Bible and contemporary culture, then one of them is redundant.
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