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The key to discovering wisdom is (ironically!) recognizing that we don’t have the answers and that we are not in a position to know what’s best. That’s really the whole point—that we learn to depend on God to show us the path to life.

The idolatry of empire building is one manifestation of our failure to trust God. We long for something tangible to give us a sense of security. Ironically, idolatry is the inverse of our creation purpose. Rather than subduing creation, we submit to it and are subdued.

Genesis 1 depicts creation as a process of bringing disorder into order. God arranges the proper domains of every living thing so that each can flourish and be fruitful. Genesis 6 represents a willful breakdown in the order God established.

We can fail to live well as God’s image, but we never stop being God’s image. Because the essence of being God’s image is a claim about our identity rather than a capability or function, we cannot lose it.

Just as a statue of a god is intended to represent that god’s claim to a particular area, so humans are the physical representation of the Creator God on earth. And just as an idol is meant to deflect praise to the actual deity, so humans are to deflect praise to Yahweh.