“For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.”
Romans 8:29
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Connection with the image of God
Genesis 9 says every person bears God's image, tselem in Hebrew, though Adam and Noah bore it in a broken way. Christ "is the image of the invisible God" (Colossians 1:15), the flawless likeness we carry only in fragments. Being "conformed to the image of His Son" means that broken image is restored in Him.
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