Imago Dei
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When engaging the Creation story we must start where the Bible starts – with God. One of the pictures God portrays in Creation is much like a suzerain-vassal treaty of the ancient Near Eastern monarchs; God announces he’s King of Creation. God speaks and it happens; he names it and it is his; and he sets his representative images throughout the land. He’s King, he’s established his Kingdom, and he’s ruler over his world and the people he made. A ruler with absolute authority and power can be frightening, but the Creation story also portrays the King as good.