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Listening Posture

Knowing God's voice the way a child knows their mother's.

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Made in God's Image: Why Shedding Blood Strikes at God (Genesis 9:1-7)
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Made in God's Image: Why Shedding Blood Strikes at God (Genesis 9:1-7)

Day eleven of a walk through the whole Bible to know the God who speaks, opened up. In Genesis 9 God opened the new world with a blessing lifted straight from creation and a law written to guard human life. The Hebrew shows why it matters so much. Man is made in the tselem, the image of God, and the life sits in the dam, the blood, so to shed a man's blood is to strike at the likeness of the Maker. The blessing over Noah, the ban on eating blood, and how the image and the shed blood both find their end in Christ.

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