The Image of God, the Need for God, and Bioethics

Abstract

This article identifies several key implications of humanity's creation in God's image for the field of bioethics. First, the article develops a biblically sound understanding of what it means to be in God's image, contrasting it with another understanding that has long been widespread. In order to help adjudicate which understanding is more in line with the meaning that the Bible intends, the article next describes a biblical perspective on humanity's weakness and need for God that serves as a context for humanity's creation in God's image. The final part of the article then explains how Christian bioethics is dependent (on God) and otherwise distinctive from other outlooks. For example, being in God's image affects: how one resolves bioethical challenges, the positions one takes on bioethical challenges, and the degree to which one engages bioethical challenges.

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