Nancy Pearcey — professor at Houston Christian University and author of Love Thy Body, whose work on the image of God grounds human dignity in creation theology rather than in human achievement or social consensus.

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Nancy Pearcey

Professor, Houston Christian University; author of Love Thy Body

Genesis 9:6 places a radical foundation under the prohibition of murder: human life is sacred because every person bears the image of God. This is not a cultural consensus or a legal convention—it is a creational fact. The image is not lost in the fall (Genesis 9 is post-flood), and it cannot be revoked by behavior, disease, or social status.

Pearcey shows how every contemporary debate about human dignity—abortion, euthanasia, slavery, human trafficking—ultimately turns on whether we accept or reject the imago Dei. When you see a person today—any person—you are looking at someone who bears God's image. Let that reality shape how you treat them.