For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.
Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.
God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.
He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.
Job was astonished at seeing Almighty God so intent on doing good to us that He seems to have nothing more at heart than to love us and to induce us to love Him in return.
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
Humanity was created in the image of God; our love is a reflection of his.
And if, happy in the lot of no created thing, he withdraws into the center of his own unity, his spirit, made one with God, in the solitary darkness of God, who is set above all things, shall surpass them all.
Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature.