Genesis 1:1
"Infinite love—how great it is! God made the world to enlarge heaven. He desires a larger family of created intelligences.
All
heaven took a deep and joyful interest in the creation of the world and
of man. Human beings were a new and distinct order. They were made in
the image of God, and it was the Creator's design that they should
populate the earth.
---There
is no ground for the supposition that man was evolved by slow degrees
of development from the lower forms of animal or vegetable life.
---Such
teaching lowers the great work of the Creator to the level of man's
narrow, earthly conceptions.
Men are so intent upon excluding God from
the sovereignty of the universe that they degrade man and defraud him of
the dignity of his origin.
---Man was to bear God's image, both in outward resemblance and in character.
---Christ alone is “the express image” (Hebrews 1:3)
of the Father; but man was formed in the likeness of God.
His nature
was in harmony with the will of God.
His mind was capable of
comprehending divine things."
E.G.W.
