Made in His Image

I am taking a class this semester that all DBU students are required to take, called Developing the Christian Mind (DCM). This class is focused on preparing Christians to intellectually develop their faith so it is based upon truth that they have thought out and worked out instead of just believing generalities and not digging deeper. At least, I think that is what the class is about. Regardless, today we were talking about creation and how in the first three chapters of the Bible, we are able to answer the four questions that every person longs to know. Who am I? Where am I? What's wrong (with the world)? What's the remedy? We were on the topic of "who am I" in regard to Adam and Eve. We were talking about how they were made in the image of God. Then, the professor asked the question of why God was so against the Israelites making graven images or idols. One student said that the idols could take the place of God in our lives and become the receptor of our praise instead of God. That is true. Another student said God cannot be confined to human efforts of craftsmanship and it is a disgrace to attempt to. That is true as well. But then it clicked. God made humans in the image of God. We are to be the representation of God on this planet because we have his characteristics and attributes to a certain extent. We shirk our duty of being the physical representation of God in this world and put it upon other things, but God designed us to be His graven image. Not so we can receive praise, but that people may see who God is through their fellow human which will lead them to a relational powerful God. Humans are the only creation made in God's image, so we have a innate duty to display who our creator for his glory.