Passage, Paragraph, and Prayer
“Passage, Paragraph, and Prayer” is a biweekly devotional podcast. Each episode consists of a passage from the Bible, a paragraph meditating on that passage, and a closing prayer. This podcast is produced by Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Winner, South Dakota.
Passage, Paragraph, and Prayer
Taking Human Life, Part 3 (Genesis 9:4–6)
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Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church
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Season 6
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Episode 73
The reason God gives for his prohibition against taking human life is that he made mankind in his image. Is this referring to a present reality? Is mankind still made in God’s image? Or is this referring back to when God first made mankind, and what he desired by making mankind that way?
Music Credit: J. S. Bach, “Wir eilen mit schwachen, doch emsigen Schritten,” aria from “Jesu, der du meine Seele,” BWV 78 (Leipzig, 1724).