HEAVEN AND EARTH

MODULE 6: SESSION 29: The Image of God in the Storyline of the Bible

Daniel 7 is a meditation on Genesis 1-3, where humans give up their role as embodied divine rulers to an animal. They’d rather trust in themselves than in God. And by doing so, they become like beasts. This is where they are banished from God’s garden and begin to live in the garden of the beast. Genesis 3:15 gives us hope in the form of a coming seed, who we learn will be the Messiah or anointed one. In the New Testament, “Christ” means “anointed one.” So Jesus is depicted as the true human and image of God, the seed of Genesis 3:15.