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Is it Always the ‘Woman’s Choice’?

When governments forget that humans are valuable because they are made in God’s image, the alternative criteria always create terrible inequities and injustices. In the light of pro-abortion legislation currently before the NSW parliament, we offer this testimony as evidence of the pattern. Abortion: it’s a topic that divides. Women either shout or whisper about it, and men, no matter what they may think, tend towards deathly silence. But with the proposed NSW legislation it’s time for us to start talking. If you haven’t heard much about this legislation, it does a bit more than merely decriminalise abortion. It allows...

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5 Secrets: How the Bible helps You Understand Your Life and Its Meaning.

Andrew Moody

A Straightforward Introduction to Christianity* 1. You Matter Much More Than You Know. What makes a person significant? Some people think that the people who really matter are those with beauty, wealth, success or fame. Others think that it’s being creative or interesting that makes a person significant. Still others hope to find significance in romantic relationships or through improving the world. But the Bible says you already matter. God created us humans “in his image”—to be living symbols of him here on earth. Humans are like ambassadors or representatives of God. We have a job (to care for the...

Image of God (7) – Humanity in Resurrection & Ascension

Peter Orr

Peter Orr concludes our series on the Image of God (see part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6) with some deep thinking about how the resurrection and ascension of Jesus revise our understanding of what it means to be human. One of the central themes developed in this series on the Image of God has been the idea that humans have the highest place in God’s plans because of their relationship to God. In this final post we’ll reflect briefly on how our understanding of this truth is filled out by the resurrection and ascension...

Image of God (6) – Image of God in discussion with Islam

Samuel Green

In this penultimate instalment of TGCA’s seven part series on the Image of God (see part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5), Samuel Green highlights the significance of the Jewish/Christian idea of the Image of God, for discussion with Muslims. A common mistake Christians make when talking to Muslims about the divinity of Jesus is to start at Jesus. We assume that Christians and Muslims agree about God and humanity, and only differ when it comes to Christ, and so we argue about him (diagram 1). These conversations tend to go round and round. However, Christians and...

The Image of God (5) Image and Likeness – Broken and Restored

Andrew Moody

In this, the fifth instalment of TGCA’s seven part series on the Image of God (see part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4), Andrew Moody revives an old distinction between “image” and “likeness” and explains how Christ fulfils both. Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” (Genesis 1:26) In the early church “image” and “likeness” were often believed to mean...

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