R.C. Sproul

And we do everything in our power that we can to destroy any authenticity there may be to our existence.

And yes, we have psychological disturbances and so on, and chemical imbalances, all of which may contribute to mitigating circumstances to our behavior.

But the problem with man's being in the image of God is that we transgress his law.

God will never judge us for being finite, but he will justly judge us for being disobedient.

For the Greek anti-physical viewpoint, redemption ultimately is redemption from the body.

Plato called the body the prison house of the soul.

And so the highest hope for man would be the disintegration and destruction of the body so that the soul could be released to live in pure contemplation unencumbered by any influences of that which is physical.

Christianity teaches redemption of the body, that in heaven we will have glorified bodies, but we will still be creatures who are body and soul.

The last night of Jesus' life when He gathered with His friends in the upper room to celebrate the Passover, remember in the course of that discussion, Philip turned to Jesus and said, Show us the Father, and it sufficeth us.

In other words, Jesus, if you'll just let us see who God is.

then every yearning, every desire, every heartbeat of our lives will be satisfied.

Just show us once.

Do you remember Jesus' response to that?

If there was ever a time we could almost sense frustration in the words of Jesus to His friends, it's there.

It's like He said,

How long have I been with you and you didn't know me?

He who has seen me, Jesus said, has seen the Father.

One of the most important aspects of the Christology of the New Testament is the motif that we see here and there through the Gospels and then developed more and more by the Apostle Paul of Jesus as being the new Adam.

as Jesus fulfilling what it means.

to be the perfect man, the perfect image of God.