The Life of the Leader

The Life of the Leader

For the Bible, the imago Dei is almost a definition of man: The mystery of man that cannot be detected regardless of the mystery of God. The Old Testament understanding of man as created in the image of God partly reflects the old idea of ??the Middle East, that the king was the image of God on earth. The biblical understanding, however, stands out from them by the notion of the image of God extends to all men. An additional contrast with the old thinking of the Middle East is that the Bible, ...