Klyne R. Snodgrass

“Our true history is the history of Christ into which we are grafted. His history, within which and to which our personal history is subsumed, is our defining history. That is what faith, baptism, and the Lord’s Supper are about. Christians lay the story of their lives—damage and all—in the hands of God, confess that parts of their story are not good, affirm that they do not direct their own story, and ask that their story be taken into and conformed to the narrative of what God is doing in Christ.”
― Klyne R. Snodgrass, Who God Says You Are: A Christian Understanding of Identity

“Image of God is not merely about pointing to God, though. It is also about connection to God, living in relation to and participating with God. Also, the image is not merely an individual thing; we are not in the image of God by ourselves. The image of God is communal and involves our relations with God and with each other in ways that reflect the being of God. It is about humanity as a whole as well as about individuals. Additionally, the image of God involves male and female together, a point emphasized in Genesis 1:27 and 5:2. The emphasis on male and female together is not mentioned with the creation of animals.19 In the interaction of male and female we reveal—or distort—the image of God. Male and female together in community reflect the image of God, and not merely in marriage. Suddenly human sexuality takes on an enormous significance, for how we relate sexually has to do with mirroring God!”
― Klyne R. Snodgrass, Who God Says You Are: A Christian Understanding of Identity