The body belongs to the image, not directly, since God, as we noted earlier, does not have one, but indirectly, inasmuch as the God-like activities of exercising dominion over the material creation and demonstrating affection to other rational beings make our embodiment necessary. --JI Packer
typical.... his little article from his book CONCISE THEOLOGY contains a very helpful summary of this teaching and is chock-full of scripture to look up and read
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