PHI-413 Topic 2./ Complete solution Graded A

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Topic 2 DQ1 What is the Christian concept of the imago Dei? How might it be important to health care, and why is it relevant? “Imago Dei” comes from the Latin version of the Bible, translated to E... nglish as “image of God. Imago Dei, or Image of God, means in likeness, or similarity, to God. Humans are created with unique abilities, absent in all other creatures of the earth, that mirror the divine nature of God. The image of God is a foundational concept for understanding our significance and purpose in life. Understanding how we are made in God’s image helps us understand our inherent dignity as a human being created by our heavenly Father. Genesis 1:26-27 tells us that human beings are made in the image of God: Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. [Show More]

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