Dimension 1: Creation. Humans are
unique in all of God’s creation, including angelic beings, in that God created
only humans in His image: “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness.… So
God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and
female he created them” (Gen.1:26–27 NIV).
God made humans like Himself in some crucial ways, so humans are unique and
special to God. Humans have intrinsic value, because we carry in us the image
of God. We did not evolve by chance from some primordial ooze over eons of
time. We were handmade by God Himself. “The LORD
God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils
the breath of life, and the man became a living being.… Then the LORD
God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her
to the man” (2:7, 22 NIV).
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