Areneus - The Glory of God Is the Human Fully Alive

The way that paul portrays this is that humanity has kind of thrown off this, this commissioned role being image of god within the temple. And i think that what is being alluded to here is just all sorts of idolatry. Not only did the first humans attend to the voice of the snake or the serpent and do what the serpent suggested that they do. In that sense, they sort of became in the image of the serpent. Not only has that happened, but humans have also seen themselves as image of all kinds of other things within creation. The fundamental human error is that Humanity has come to see itself as actually im representative of a something within creation. That is the fundamental, the