Editorial by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 24, 1907

Editorial

By Editor

WHEN GOD created man, he created him in his own image, perfect in his being, well-balanced in his powers, in harmony with God. It was God's thought that man should thus continue in harmony with him, living the very life of divinity; but sin came in, and that likeness to God was marred, and through ages of sin, became well-nigh obliterated. It was the purpose of him who is the unseen, the invisible God, who hides himself in darkness, that before the universe there should be an image of himself, and so he made man, in his own image. This image being marred and well-nigh lost by sin, it was yet God's purpose that there should be in the world an image of himself, and in the carrying out of this plan, Jesus Christ came to the world as the second Adam, to be in himself the image of God for humanity. He is “the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature.”