God’s creation of mankind and his purpose for his creation. Genesis 1 explains that God created all the animals according to their own kind (Gen. 1:21–25), but he created humans according to his own image and likeness (Gen. 1:26–27). All human dignity is derived from God by virtue of him saying that we are “very good” (Gen. 1:31) and by the care he took in his creation of us: fashioning man from the dust, blowing life into him, fashioning woman from man and blowing life into her, and giving us purpose
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