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Creation and Man In the beginning it pleased the Triune
God—Father, Son and Holy Spirit—to create the world and all things in
it in six days. All was very
good. In this way God glorified his eternal power, wisdom and
goodness. All creatures were made by God,
the last to be fashioned being man and woman who received dominion over
all other creatures on the earth. God
gave man and woman rational and immortal souls, and in all respects fitted
them for a life in harmony with himself.
They were created in his image, possessing knowledge, righteousness
and true holiness. The divine
law was written in their hearts and they had power to obey it fully.
Yet, being left to the liberty of their own mutable wills,
transgression of the law was a possibility.
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