Chapter 1 Genesis Analysis

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Genesis chapter 1 explains that humans are created in the image of God. Knight (2006) expands upon this idea by explaining that the mental, spiritual and physical identity of humans were inherited at creation from His image, and thereby possess some of His traits, such as love and rationality. Knight clarifies that, after the fall, humanity changed and the image we possess from the creator was corrupted but not completely distorted; humans still have the image, though incompletely expressed, of the heavenly creator. With the thought that humanity has love and rationality we can examine the similarities between Christian philosophy and the reconstructionist philosophy. Ozmon (2012) and Cohen (1999) agree that reconstructionism can be

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