Open Source Edition
arrow_rightPart One: The Profession of Faith
arrow_rightSection Two: The Creeds
arrow_rightChapter One: I Believe in God the Father
arrow_rightArticle 1. "I Believe in God The Father Almighty, Creator of Heaven and Earth"
arrow_rightParagraph 6. Man

In Brief

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“Father, … you formed man in your own likeness and set him over the whole world to serve you, his creator, and to rule over all creatures.”1.

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Man is predestined to reproduce the image of God’s Son made man, the “image of the invisible God”2, so that Christ shall be the first-born of a multitude of brothers and sisters.3

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“Man, though made of body and soul, is a unity.”4 The doctrine of the faith affirms that the spiritual and immortal soul is created immediately by God.

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“God did not create man a solitary being. From the beginning, ‘male and female he created them’5. This partnership of man and woman constitutes the first form of communion between persons.”6

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Revelation makes known to us the state of original holiness and justice of man and woman before sin: from their friendship with God flowed the happiness of their existence in paradise.

Footnotes

  1. Roman Missal, EP IV, 118

  2. Col 1:15.

  3. Cf. Eph 1:3-6; Rom 8:29.

  4. GS 14 § 1.

  5. Gen 1:27.

  6. GS 12 § 4.