God s Image<br >the image of the invisible God. Colossians 1:15<br >hen Paul says that Christ is "the image of the invisible<br >1，" he means that Christ came to give us a visible expres-<br >L of a God who is invisible. "He who has seen me has seen<br >Father，" Jesus told his disciples. That is why no one with<br >:ss to a Bible can claim ignorance of what God is like.<br >But he is much more than that. Jesus Christ is a reflection<br >s of what man was intended to be.<br >One of the remarkable， enigmatic things about man is his<br >~ophrenia. Creativity oozes from his pores. He can do<br >h magnificent things. Walk around the world with half an<br >open， and you ll be awestruck at the sheer brilliance of<br >akin&<br >At the same time， however， we humans are capable of<br >，plicable cruelty and hostility. We pervert and pollute the<br >st precious and beautiful things in the most dastardly，<br >cardly way imaginable.<br >How can these two impulses co-exist? How can man-<br >d be so creative and yet so destructive? I submit that the<br >y adequate theory sees mankind as having a marred<br >tige of the divine image. We were created perfect， but<br > fell. Then Christ came into the world， and against a<br >en humanity， he stands supreme. In so doing he demon-<br >~tes how far we have fallen.<br >If ever we want to know how we re doing as human<br >ngs， we mustn t compare ourselves with ourselves. In-<br >ad we must measure ourselves against Jesus， the image of<br >