Article May 7, 2018 Issue

Our true selves—ageless and free

Bruce Butterfield

It can seem as if we’re constantly being bombarded with suggestions about age-related effects and limitations and their supposed inevitability. But are these really what define us?

We don’t have to accept this as our birthright or as an inevitable fact or law of being. There is another view of what we actually are—a view that carries with it the promise of ageless life, based on the Bible’s reassurance that we are made in the image and likeness of God.

In order to begin to understand what this really means for us, we need to first think about what God is—and then we can see what we are.

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