TulipGirl

“Because God remains man’s Creator, man still retains indications that he was created to be God’s son. But he is now God’s image in the sense that a ruin is still a castle, or a palace. Its greatness lies in the past, in stark contrast to what it has become. Man is now by nature a great, but tragic figure. Like some character in a Shakespearean tragedy, he still stands on center stage, but bears the marks of his own tragic destruction, rather than the glory of the image of God. Like the prodigal in the far country, he retains confused memories of his former family status, but feeds himself on the husks of a fallen world.”

– Sinclair Ferguson