The creation formula invoked to justify why humans would inherit agency analogous to divine action.
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Image of God
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Jiang says God is perfect love, generosity, forgiveness, and truth, that humans were created in that image, and that sin consists in freely turning away from that likeness until divine brightness dims.
Another student answers that humans are made in the image of God and therefore share divine traits such as free will in a way other creatures do not.
A student suggests that God made human beings in his own image and therefore wanted them to possess agency like his.
Another student suggests that if humans are made in the image of God, then treating the universe as a human body doubles the metaphor through the image of man.
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"Okay, so what she's saying here, this is really important, is you don't understand because you don't love enough. If you become a parent..."
"going verse 61 nevertheless since there's much attempting to find this point but little understanding I shall tell why that way was the most..."
"stop okay all right okay so do you guys understand what he's saying what beatrice is saying is that god is perfect god is..."
"Because we are made in the image of God, but all the other creatures aren't. And so we have his traits, I guess, or..."
"Maybe because God made men in his own image and he wanted men to have agency, just like him."
"I guess it's interesting that if humans are the image of God, and then he's taking this metaphor as the universe and he's creating..."
"...consensus on how to build a new society in the image of God. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay? This is the foundation of..."
Relevant Lectures And Readings
Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
A source-grounded reading of the first Dante livestream's central claim: Dante begins in heaven because paradise reveals the real method of reading, the real structure of freedom, and the real reason hell forms inside...
America begins here as a cure for civilization: a clean-slate game built from Enlightenment rights, self-help, property, and fair rules.
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