Man's Responsibility Created in God's Image

Man's Responsibility Created in God's Image

1689 Baptist Confession of Faith – Chapter 4 – Of Creation

What was the estate wherein man was created? - ‘Man was created in an estate of sinlessness and happiness in which the Lord God entrusted him with care for the garden of Eden and forbade him to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, upon pain of death.' - Shorter Catechism

S. Waldron, Modern Exposition Of The 1689 Confession, (p.85) – ‘As he is the image of God, man's whole duty is to be the image of, to reflect, or represent God on earth. Our moral duty is to be like God.. As man is the image of God, his sin is always the misrepresentation of God. The sinner perversely represents God. Our representation of God is either accurate or slanderous, but never morally neutral. This being so, God can never be indifferent to wicked behavior. He is committed to clear His good name and avenge Himself upon those who persist in misrepresenting Him.'