GOD’S ORIGINAL PURPOSE IN CREATION, “LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE ACCORDING TO OUR LIKENESS,” HAS BEEN REALIZED IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.  

THE DESIRE OF GOD IS, “YOU SHALL BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.”  THUS HE SPOKE TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL WHEN HE DELIVERED THEM FROM EGYPT AND TO WHOM HE ENTRUSTED THE PROMISED SEED OF THE WOMAN WHO WOULD CRUSH THE SERPENT’S HEAD.

ADAM, EVEN IN HIS INNOCENCE, WAS INCOMPLETE.  INNOCENCE IS NOT HOLINESS.  HAD GOD BEEN ABLE TO CREATE HOLINESS, HE WOULD HAVE DONE SO.  GOD ALONE IS HOLY.  ONLY GOD’S OWN LIFE CAN MAKE MAN HOLY.   

NOT UNTIL THE INCARNATION WAS MAN COMPLETED.  THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK OF HEBREWS WRITES OF JESUS, “HE IS THE RADIANCE OF HIS GLORY AND THE EXACT REPRESENTATION OF HIS NATURE.”

IN JESUS, WE SEE THE FIRST HOLY HUMAN BEING.  NOT UNTIL GOD BROUGHT FORTH HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THROUGH THE VIRGIN MARY, WAS MANKIND COMPLETED.

IT IS IN THIS HOLY MAN, JESUS, THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD, THAT WE FIND DELIVERANCE FROM OUR SIN AND ETERNAL LIFE.      

Rosemary E Hyslop