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Co-Workers in Creation, January 7
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. ...
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created
he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis 1:26, 27
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After the earth was created, and the beasts upon it, the Father and Son
carried out their purpose, which was designed before the fall of Satan, to
make man in their own image. They had wrought together in the creation
of the earth and every living thing upon it. And now God said to His Son,
“Let us make man in our image.
Adam and Eve came forth from the hand of their Creator in the perfec-
tion of every physical, mental, and spiritual endowment. God planted for
them a garden and surrounded them with everything lovely and attractive
to the eye, and that which their physical necessities required....
The holy pair looked upon nature as a picture of unsurpassed loveliness.
The brown earth was clothed with a carpet of living green, diversified with
an endless variety of self-propagating, self-perpetuating flowers. Shrubs,
flowers, and trailing vines regaled the senses with their beauty and fra-
grance. The many varieties of lofty trees were laden with fruit of every
kind and of delicious flavor. ...
Adam and Eve could trace the skill and glory of God in every spire
of grass and in every shrub and flower. The natural loveliness which
surrounded them, like a mirror reflected the wisdom, excellence, and love
of their heavenly Father. And their songs of affection and praise rose
sweetly and reverentially to heaven, harmonizing with the songs of the
exalted angels, and with the happy birds who were caroling forth their
music without a care. There was no disease, decay, nor death anywhere.
Life, life was in everything the eye rested upon. The atmosphere was
impregnated with life....
Adam could reflect that he was created in the image of God, to be like
Him in righteousness and holiness. His mind was capable of continual
cultivation, expansion, refinement and noble elevation, for God was his
teacher, and angels were his companions
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The Story of Redemption, 20, 21
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The Review and Herald, February 24, 1874
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