Welcome to episode one of the Image Restoration Podcast! Rather than go the route of introductions and setup, we're taking an unconventional turn and just jumping into the deep questions. Why did the fall of man happen? Will there be a tree of knowledge of good and evil in the new earth? Let's figure that out together.

Show notes:
CORRECTIONS/CLARIFICATIONS/ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS:
• “Knowledge of Assent” vs. “Experiential Knowledge” is also referred to as
“Archtypal knowledge” and “Echtypal knowledge” respectively.
• “God simply is.” Plato refers to this concept of God by using the term “Unmoved
mover”.
• “It’s not that God’s wrath wasn’t displayed, but that we did not experientially know
its extent.” Just to build on this, God did inform us of His wrath in Genesis 2:16-17. He warned us that the penalty of sin is death. So, we had that information available, but we experienced it through seeing Christ die and attained that knowledge. Through Christ, we are spared a full experiential realization of that wrath.
• “It’s less for God’s sake and more for ours.” Just to be absolutely clear, everything is ultimately for God’s glory. God carried out this entire story for His glory, not for ours. So, it is for the sake of God’s glory. However, He didn’t need it, and this is the point I am trying to make. It was for us to be able to glorify Him more fully and completely.
• Regarding Felix Culpa, to contrast a bad version with a “good” one, here is the original Catholic use of the phrase in the Exsultet, earliest manuscripts around the 6th century: “O happy fault that earned for us so great, so glorious a Redeemer.” Here, by contrast, is Augustine’s writing of a corrected notion from which the Catholic tradition drew their flawed notion, circa 420 AD, which I explain in my own words in the podcast: “For God judged it better to bring good out of evil than not to permit any evil to exist.”
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RESOURCES: https://carm.org/what-is-theosis
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VERSES ALLUDED TO/REFERENCED:
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!”
Isaiah 5:20
“Temptation account”: Matthew 4:1-11, Luke 4:1-13
“And God blessed them. And God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.’”
Genesis 1:28
“Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.”
Psalm 8:5
 Passage on angels longing to look into the plan of salvation: 1 Peter 1:10-12 John 1:1-18
“Union with Christ” verses to look at: Revelation 20:6
Colossians 3:3
John 17:22-23
2 Peter 1:4 Romans 6:3-6 Galatians 2:20 Galatians 3:27
2 Corinthians 5:21
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TERMS USED: Divine Simplicity Oneness heresy Modalism Reformed Theology Catholicism
Felix Culpa/Fortunate Fall Free Will
Predestination
Calvinism
Eastern Orthodoxy Theosis/Deification Sanctification
Union with Christ
Imago Dei/Image of God Son of Man
Son of God
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Image Restoration S1E1

The fallen world and our fallen natures have deteriorated the masterpieces we were created to be. Our colors are diminished. But, we are images of God being restored. If we are images of God, what does it look like to be that from day-to-day? 

Welcome to a podcast that focuses on applying unchanging, extraordinary values to a changing, ordinary life. With whatever life you've been handed. Understand yourself. Understand your focus. Understand your life.

Emily is a 25-year-old vagabond working and living in SE Wisconsin. She has a passion for people, personal development, interpersonal relationships, psychology, theology, and counseling. She hopes this podcast becomes a means to draw people closer to their purpose and the truth about who they are.