It’s important to wrap our minds around the doctrine of the imago Dei because it’s a theological foundation we must stand on as we learn to critique and condemn the social construct of race in America and our historical reliance on white supremacy. Stated simply, the imago Dei declares that all human beings are valuable and of infinite worth. God is the one that makes this declaration, and no human being is allowed to challenge it. To do so is to play God. Yet when we created the American construct of race, that’s exactly what we did. We undercut the imago Dei by establishing the narrative of
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