Does God Get Back Pain? On the Image of God
If we’re made in God’s image, what exactly does that mean? Surely not that God shares our crow’s feet or back pain. The likeness runs deeper. We create, feel, reason and reflect — echoes of the Creator’s own life. Yet every answer leads us toward mystery. We resemble God enough to recognize him, but not enough to contain him. The image is real, but the One it reflects is far greater.
Da Vinci Is Not Hanging in the Louvre: The Creator/Creature Distinction
It’s tempting to blur God into nature, into ourselves, into everything — until the Creator becomes just another part of creation. But Scripture insists on a difference: God is the artist, we are the art. The mountains are radiant, but they are not God. Holding the Creator-creature distinction protects wonder without collapsing into worship of ourselves or the world. Da Vinci isn’t hanging in the Louvre — and neither is God.