Home Learning Study materials video Std 3 DD Girnar/Diksha portal video What does it mean that mankind was created ‘in the image of God’? It does not mean that God has two arms and a head. Rather it is saying that our basic characteristics come from God. In the Bible God can be sad, hurt, angry or joyful – the same emotions that we have. We make choices and decisions everyday. God also makes choices and decisions too. We can think and God does also. Being ‘made in the image of God’ means that we have mind, emotions and will because God has mind, emotions and will and He created us to be like him in these ways. He is the source of what we find in us.
We are self-aware and conscious of ‘I’ and ‘you’. We are not impersonal ‘its’. We are like this because God is this way. The God of the Bible is not a non-personality like the ‘Force’ in the movie series Star Wars and neither are we because we are made in His image.
Why do we like beauty?
We also value art, drama and beauty. We need beauty in our surroundings, music and books. Music enriches our lives and makes us dance. We love good stories because stories have heroes, villains, drama, and the great stories put these heroes, villains and drama into our imaginations. We use art in its many forms to entertain, relax and refresh ourselves because God is an artist and we are in his image. It is a question worth asking: Why do we look for beauty in art, drama, music, dance, nature or literature? Daniel Dennett, an outspoken atheist and an authority on understanding the brain, answers from a non-Bible perspective
Apart from God there is no clear answer to why all the forms of art are so important to us. From the Bible’s point-of-view it is because God made things beautiful and enjoys beauty. We, made in His image, are the same. This Biblical teaching makes sense of our love of art.
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