Did God Create Us So Wicked and Perverse?
Did God, then, create man so wicked and perverse? No, on the contrary, God created man good and in His image, that is, in true righteousness and holiness, so that he might rightly know God his Creator, heartily love Him, and live with Him in eternal blessedness to praise and glorify Him. The most important purpose of the creation of man in God’s image was in the fellowship with God. That purpose is explained in all that follows the words “so that”: so that he might rightly know God his Creator, heartily love Him, and live with Him in eternal blessedness to praise and glorify Him. Briefly stated it means that man would have eternal fellowship with God. All too often, we see these things from man’s point of view and then in this way, that therein for man would be the greatest happiness. Nevertheless, there is a fundamentally different side: God wanted a response to His love from the world He created;...
