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he Word implanted life into the man he created and the man became a living person, yet unfinished and incomplete. Creation was yet not yet good. Therefore, the Word created woman and the woman and the man were one as he is One.
An image is a reflection, a copy of an original. So elegant, so complete this Image, it reflected the power to make its own choices. The Word has that power, and in creating man and woman in his Image, the two of them also had that power. They were reflections of him, yet they were unique. They were the same, yet they were different from him and from each other. In the quality of their uniqueness, they also reflected him, for there is none like him.
They could now choose independently of the Word’s choices. And this they did. He chose to have them live together in love, sharing intimacy with him and with all that he had created. They chose, however, to grasp for the knowledge of right and wrong, to draw distinctions between good and evil. In impact and substance, they became creatures of law. A distance larger than that which separates the stars, is that which separates the value of a life lived in hallowed love from a life lived in constraint to law. In making this choice, darkness entered the man and the woman. With darkness came death.
The life of the Word became light to the man and when light shines in darkness, darkness cannot extinguish or resist it. The man did not understand. The Word penetrated his darkness with light. In so doing, it enlightened the hearts of every man and woman in the world. Its function is to redeem, to release and reclaim the person, the created soul and body, the effervescent spirit formed in the Image of God.
