I’ve not heard of that... we are created in God’s image — our sin separates us from God... but we’re still created in his image.
Hoss
Hoss,
Your summary is good Christian teaching. I agree with it.
Unfortunately (to my understanding) the Reformation took the nature of the fall much farther.
Traditionally the Church Fathers balanced two dynamics here by stating that in the fall we lost the likeness (relationship of communion with the Holy Trinity and accompanying grace of God) but retained the image (fixed in our nature.)
John Calvin and others felt compelled to emphasize that the nature was altered so severely because they needed to justify monergism to completely eliminate the Church (it would seem) from the equation of salvation.
Is it possible that post-protestant society retained the disdain for mankind that lurked in Calvinist distinctives?
See my Calvin quote to Alex