Intrinsic or extrinsic image?
Ranald Macaulay and Joe Martin indicate how theistic evolution tends to distort what it means to be human
Scholars have wrestled for many years to try to explain the familiar expression ‘the image of God’.
Image of God reply
Ranald Macaulay
Date posted: 1 Dec 2014
Dear Sir,
We are glad that Bob Alloway (Nov en)
seems to agree with our main point (Oct en)
that the image of God in man has to do with
our intrinsic nature. He says: ‘… theistic evo-lutionists would agree that (Adam and Eve)
were designed –
and would say,
‘[human
beings] didn’t just evolve by chance’.
‘It is essential...’
Ranald Macaulay reminds us of what Lloyd-Jones and Schaeffer said about the scientific interpretation of Genesis 1-3
Three names dominated the UK’s evangelical landscape during the second half of the 20th century.
