Ramifications of the Fall impacted man & God

 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: Genesis 1:26

 

"God made Adam in His own image, but by sin he lost that image.
--Then he begat sons and daughters, but he begat them in his image, not in God's. 

--And so we have descended in the line, but all after his image.

 

Christ came, of flesh, and in the flesh, born of a woman, made under the law; born of the Spirit, but in the flesh......it was the very flesh He designed to take; because you see, the problem was to help man out of the difficulty into which he had fallen, and man is a free moral agent. He must be helped as a free moral agent. 

Christ's work must be, 

not to destroy him,

 not to create a new race, 

but to re-create man, 

to restore in him the image of God."  

W.W. Prescott