John Scott- Image of God

I have been doing a lot of thinking about the Image of God. A topic that Van Der Leeuw speaks about. Art is often creating an image of yourself in the creation. The Bible talks about this in the Genesis story. According to the Genesis creation account, mankind was created in the imago Dei, or image of God. Genesis 1: 26-27 says: Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” Van Der Leeuw discusss the image of God as an incredibly important function of Christian theology and describes its immense implications for our understanding of God and his creation. An image is a physical form and it represents something outside itself. It is not a ghost, idea or concept but is something that can be felt and experienced through the senses. An image also has the quality of being something that represents and is from something else. An image does not stand alone, but calls back to and reveals more about the thing that it is representing. An image is caused not by accident or arbitrary means but by the essence of that which is being represented (Leeuw, 306).