3 Premises and 2 “Therefores”
Premise #1: God designed us as complex body/soul beings—embodied souls.
Genesis 2:7: “Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.”
Premise #2: God fearfully and wonderfully uniquely designed each of us.
Psalm 139:13-16: “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.”
Premise #3: In the Creation/Cultural Mandate, God calls His image bearers to be “under-shepherds”(God is the Great Shepherd) and “under-scientists” stewarding His creation.
Genesis 1:26-28: “Then God said, ‘Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in
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