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The Creator Exalts His Creation

Created as we were to the image and likeness of the Creator, we fell through our sin from God into ourselves, and fell from ourselves beneath ourselves into such an abyss of unlikeness that no hope was left. But there came the Son of God, eternal Wisdom; he bowed his heavens and came down. He… Read More ›

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Human Beings are Beloved by God

The Lord, both as man and as God, helps and benefits everyone. As God, he forgives sins; as man, he instructs us not to sin. Therefore human beings are rightly beloved by God, since they are his creatures. Other things were created by his command alone, but human beings were created by the work of… Read More ›

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God’s Love for Human Beings

For God loved human beings, on account of whom he made the world, to whom he subordinated all things on the earth, to whom he gave reason and mind, whom alone he inclined to look above to himself, whom he made from his own image, to whom “he sent his one and only Son” [1… Read More ›

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A New Look at Creation and the Universe

This story is not what is typically placed on the site, but the photography is so stunning and the concepts so intriguing it seems to have a place. The world debates whether there is a God or not. Did He create the Universe or was it just one big accident? Did the Lord God have… Read More ›

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