East Ridge Pres

Genesis 1:27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. We were created in the image of God, but by our sin that image of God was marred and disfigured in us. Vandalized. Defaced. Mutilated. But we need Christ in order to be human. We are recreated in Jesus. Jesus who is the new perfect image of God. “Christ, who is the image of God.” 2 Corinthians 4:4 Jesus died on the cross with the goal of making us whole human beings. Restoring the image of God fully. Grace restores nature. Grace restores humanity. Graces makes us truly human, because a full human is a being made in the image of God. Even though Adam was made in the image of God he still had the duty to obey God and grow to a much greater maturity. A duty he rejected. Adam did not have the highest humanity. A greater humanity is in Jesus Christ and it is to this goal he leads us. This means that ordinary human vocations are service in the kingdom of God. Christians can honorably se