Title: 10 Things You Should Know about the Imagination | Crossway Articles
Headings: 10 Things You Should Know about the Imagination
10 Things You Should Know about the Imagination
1. Everyone has an imagination.
2. Imagination is an important power of the human mind.
3. Imagination is a facet of the image of God.
The human imagination is not only a great gift of God; it is also an aspect of the image of God.
4. Imagination is important in living morally.
5. Our imaginations are fallen.
6. We sin with our imaginations.
7. Imagination is the source of idolatry.
8. Our imaginations can be redeemed.
Imagination Redeemed
Gene Edward Veith Jr., Matthew P. Ristuccia
9. The imagination is important for apologetics.
10. The Christian church has a rich imaginative legacy.
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Content: Imagination is important in living morally. Imagination makes possible empathy, the ability to assume the perspective of someone else. This allows us to “rejoice with those who rejoice,” and to “weep with those who weep” ( Romans 12: 15). Jesus is also calling for an imaginative act when he tells us “you shall love your neighbor as yourself” ( Matthew 22:39 ). 5. Our imaginations are fallen. Like the other faculties of our minds—reason, emotions, the will—the human imagination is fallen. Before the flood, God saw of man that “every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually” ( Genesis 6:5 KJV). 6.