And the dark underbelly to this way of thinking is obvious and axiomatic: If the king is the image of god, that means the rest of us aren’t. Remember Marduk? Humanity was created as cheap slave labor. Nothing more than a minimum-wage employee to push around. The theology of the image of God in Genesis was, and still is, subversive and stunning. It claims that all human beings — not just those of royal blood, not just the oligarchy of society, not just white men — all of us are made in the image of God.
