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b. Our rationality : we share with God self-consciousness and reason.

c. Our will : we share with God the ability to choose.

d. Our moral capacity : we share with God a moral sensibility.

D. The preciousness of humankind: all human beings share in the imago Dei .

1. All humankind shares in this image: there are no distinctions among human beings regarding the image of God, Acts 17.26.

2. This image is foundational to understanding God’s relationship to humankind, and human beings response to each other, James 3.9.

3. We are bad off because of the curse, but human beings are unique and precious, because of creation.

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II. The Implications of the Imago Dei in Humankind: the Remarkable Workmanship of Human Beings

A. Human beings are created in the image of God . Gen. 1. 26-28 – Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” [27] So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. [28] And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”