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The
Creation
"And God said, Let us make man in our own image,
after our likeness; . . . So God created man in his own
image, in the image of God created he him; male and female
created he them."—Gen. 1:26, 27. It was the divine
plan of God before the creation of the world, to have a
pure and holy people to serve him here upon the earth. We
read, that "he hath chosen us in him before the
foundation of the world, that we should be holy, and
without blame before him in love."—Eph. 1:4.
Man as he came from the hand of
God, in the morning of creation, was pure and holy, in
"God's own image and likeness." It was not the
"outer man"—body—that God created in his
likeness, (as blind Advents and all "nosoulists"
teach), but the "inner man"—soul. God is a
Spirit. God is holy. And the image in which he created man
is clearly stated to be "righteousness and true
holiness." Col. 3:9, 10. Eph. 4:23, 24. This image,
man lost through the fall; but it is restored to us
through the redemption of Christ. 2 Cor. 3:18. So man, in
the morning of creation, was as pure and holy as his
Maker. He walked and talked with God.
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