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Director of Christian Ethics and Biblical Worldview at Family Research Council. Follow Closson on Twitter @DavidClosson.
Because the Bible touches on all areas of life, including politics, ERLC director David Closson says Christians should engage because the Christian worldview addresses all areas of life, politics are unavoidable, politics are a way to love our neighbor, and government restrains evil and promotes good.
There are three basic understandings of what it means to be made in the Image of God. One is a structural view that believes humans' ability to reason and have a conscience reflects the image of God. Another theory is relational where being made in God's image means living in a relationship with God and other people. The third view is functional where humans are representatives of God on earth. Whichever theory that one ascribes to it dictates how we are to interact with the world and our fellow human beings -- we are to treat people with "dignity and respect irrespective of gender, race, age, nationality or economic status because we remember our King’s words that as we did for “the least of these my brothers, you did also to me” (Matt. 25:40).
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