Shirley Caperton's View Of The Image Of God

The author first interjects with an example of things leading up to you answering this question. Who are you anyway? Immediately your mind goes to work trying to figure out who you are. Yes, you will say your name and where you are from. You say in your mind will I tell them whom I really am or do I tell them what I want them to know (Guthrie, Shirley Caperton 192-193).
Science wants you to understand what it means to be a human being without reference to God. Christians believe that in entering human life God was there from the beginning. We know who we are through knowing God. Just like all other life we are born, eat, sleep, and struggle to survival. Another thought of the image of God is that it is the spiritual side of human natural or

Do you believe that all help is not human because sometimes helping people we are playing God? Salving our own guilty consciences, our help of others will be so genuine if we admit that we need their help just as much as they need ours. We as a human need someone else to be by our side even when God made Adam. He felt he should not be along. In Genesis 2:18 God stated ‘It is not good that the man should be alone; so I will make him a helper as a partner (Guthrie, Shirley Caperton 206-207). All things considered, I try but today I rather become someone else is the essence of what is being said. If I'm not myself who am I trying to be? Self-contradiction makes life hard to understand and live is the symptom of what Christian theology calls sin.Tell me why do we have trouble being that human being God made (Guthrie, Shirley Caperton 212).
Guthrie book makes the claim there is three basic form of sin. To emphasize what they are, sin as disobedience, sin as sensuality, and sin as the desire to be good. People especially want to feel they know what is best for you better than your word. As a matter of fact, some say you can inherit sin from family or someone we are following. Adam was another example of sin, classical theology gave him not

Seeming to be unable to do good and prone evil. On the negative side, people become wicked, perverse and corrupt in all their ways. We talk about total depravity correctly understanding this phrase means that although both Christians and non-Christians can do good nothing we do is free from the corruption of sinful self-interest (Guthrie, Shirley Caperton 224-225).
However, we are free to do whatever our hearts desire. Going to church staying home. Being careful because it makes a difference on how we use freedom. Another way to give the meaning of total depravity is we are not free whole-hearted without reservation or qualification, to love and let ourselves be loved by God and whom we live with (Guthrie, Shirley Caperton 226).
Our second consequence of sin is death. The serpent deceived Eve in the garden stating, “In the day that you eat of it you shall die” (Gen. 2:17). “The wages of sin is death”. We are not speaking of death in the physical but death in the spirit realm. The wages of sin take on a warning the self-destruction a state we bring upon ourselves when we contradict our humanity in God;s image, God loves us all but it does not mean we all know what that means completely.The Old and New Testament times in the Bible are full of the many sins that were committed (Guthrie, Shirley Caperton