123. What distinguishes humans from all other creatures?
A. God created all living things, but He uniquely made humanity in His image.
Genesis 1:26-27 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
B. God's Son became a man--a human being.
John 1:14, 16 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen His glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. ... For from His fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.
Philippians 2:5-7 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, wh, though He was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
C. Jesus Christ, who is God and man, suffered, shed His blood, died, and rose bodily from the dead for the salvation of humanity. Thus, every single life, including yours, is valuable to God.
Ephesians 1:7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace.
Hebrews 9:12 [Christ, our High Priest,] entered oncefor all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of His own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
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