{"id":9498,"date":"2025-07-03T20:39:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T00:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9498"},"modified":"2025-07-03T20:39:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T00:39:16","slug":"reflecting-the-image-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9498","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting the Image of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Garn4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Garn4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Garn4.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Garn4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Garn4-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Garn4-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Garn4-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Abraham Kuyper, the Dutch Reformer, taught that filling the earth referred to &#8220;the filling of the Garden with the products and processes of cultural activity. . . . In that sense, not only the family, but also art, science, technology, politics (as the collective patterns of decision making), recreation, and the like were all programmed into the original creation order to display different patterns of cultural flourishing.&#8221;  Filling the earth is a big, beautiful, huge invitation to imitate God and bring flourishing to the world.  Whatever you do to fill the earth and bring flourishing to the world reflects the image of God.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Elizabeth Garn, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/freedom_to_flourish.html\">Freedom to Flourish<\/a><\/em>, p. 58<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Falls Creek Falls, Washington, June 16, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abraham Kuyper, the Dutch Reformer, taught that filling the earth referred to &#8220;the filling of the Garden with the products and processes of cultural activity. . . . In that sense, not only the family, but also art, science, technology, politics (as the collective patterns of decision making), recreation, and the like were all programmed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-core-value","category-creativity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9500,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9498\/revisions\/9500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}