God made humans in his own image so that they could reflect God’s wisdom and life-giving rule into his creation. For that, they need to be raised from the dead to take up their ruling responsibilities in the new creation. The problem of sin isn’t just that we become guilty and deserve God’s wrath. It is that we fail to be effective God-reflectors, with the consequence that God’s good creation falls into corruption and decay. Creation itself is to be redeemed; and the means to that redemption is the rescue and re-embodiment of human beings. And if, as Paul has argued in Romans 6, baptized and believing Christians are already resurrection-people, enlivened by the holy spirit, then this work has already begun.” – N.T. Wright
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