{"id":22932,"date":"2020-08-19T09:17:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T14:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=22932"},"modified":"2020-08-19T09:32:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T14:32:03","slug":"creation-images-of-his-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=22932","title":{"rendered":"Creation: Images of His Glory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Continued from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shepherdpress.com\/restoring-gods-broken-image\">Restoring God\u2019s Broken Image<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Why did God create us? For what purpose?<\/p>\n<p>The Westminster Shorter Catechism answers, \u201cMan\u2019s chief end is to glorify God and enjoy him forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking originally of the scattered exiles of Israel whom God promised to redeem, Isaiah 43:6-7 agrees:<\/p>\n<p>I will say to the north, Give up,<br \/> and to the south, Do not withhold;<br \/> bring my sons from afar<br \/> and my daughters from the end of the earth,<br \/> everyone who is called by my name,<br \/> whom I created for my glory,<br \/> whom I formed and made.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shepherdpress.com\/products\/christ-formed-in-you\"><\/a>In the first chapter of Genesis we don\u2019t read that man was created for God\u2019s \u00a0glory, but in God\u2019s image. What\u2019s the difference? Not much. As Sinclair Ferguson has noted, \u201cIn Scripture, image and glory are interrelated ideas. As the image of God, man was created to reflect, express, and participate in the glory of God, in miniature, creaturely form.\u201d\u00a0 The Heidelberg Catechism agrees, \u201cGod created man good, and after his own image, in true righteousness and holiness, that he might rightly know God his Creator, heartily love him and live with him in eternal happiness to glorify and praise him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>God created human beings in his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continued from Restoring God\u2019s Broken Image Why did God create us? For what purpose? The Westminster Shorter Catechism answers, \u201cMan\u2019s chief end is to glorify God and enjoy him forever.\u201d Speaking originally of the scattered exiles of Israel whom God promised to redeem, Isaiah 43:6-7 agrees: I will say to the north, Give up, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":22940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[801],"tags":[2903,2904,78,407,96],"class_list":["post-22932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shepherd-press-jay-younts","tag-brian-g-hedges","tag-christ-formed-in-you","tag-gospel","tag-image-of-god","tag-sanctification","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/christ-formed-in-you-1000-7-1.jpg?fit=194%2C300&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22932"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22942,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22932\/revisions\/22942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}