Human beings were first created in the image of God. We were the image of God to begin with. It is being deceived into thinking we needed to do something to be "like God" that we harmed ourselves and malfunctioned. The true purpose of our lives thereafter is then not just knowing God, not just having a relationship with Him, but it is nothing short of learning to access and be the image of God once again in spite of this malfunction. It is learning how to once more reflect our Creator in every way as was intended. For Christians, this means learning to imitate Jesus Christ who Himself was and is the genuine image of God the Father, submitting to and cooperating with His Father in everything He said and did. It means bypassing their hereditary neurological malfunction through letting go of their fear, aggression, and bodily craving responses and fully cooperating with the Spirit of Christ with whom we are one so that it is He who acts and speaks through us. As God is love, so it is our purpose to learn to reflect, channel, and be that God who is love for all others around us as His image.
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