Chapter Two: Human Nature
Summary
Every person is made in the image of God and because of that every person deserves to be respected and treated with dignity. The image of God includes both freedom and responsibility. While no one possesses absolute freedom, each of us has some ability to shape our lives. Love provides the atmosphere in which human freedom works best, and the ideals of justice remind us of what that love entails. The gap between how we ought to live and how we actually live is called sin. Non-Christians sin and so do Christians. Rather than seeing this as a problem, Jake and Rod suggest that remembering how much we share with everyone else--both the good and the bad--can help us be more gracious in the ways we relate to others.
Questions Addressed:
- What kind of people were we created to be?
- What is the "image of God"?
- What is sin?
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