Only humans are created with the capacity to know love and serve God
Compendium 66-70
Genesis 1:26-31
1. Only man was created in the "image of God" Genesis 1:27
2. God willed us into being for no other reason than his love for us. God delights in us just as we delight with our children.
3. Our capacity for Truth and our ability and desire to love and be loved reflect God's presence in us.
4. Each of us is an unrepeatable, unique, infinitely valuable, unconditionally loved child of God. 5. We have a common origin in God our Father and our dignity and rights to life and liberty come from God alone.
6. Since God values us for our own sake, so too, should we value others for their own sake. This means we cannot treat others as objects to be used or exploited for any reason and also that we must protect and defend others, especially the most vulnerable such as the elderly, the unborn, the sick, the poor, the unwanted, the persecuted, children, the abused, the outcasts, prisoners etc..
7. We were made to know, love and serve God in this life and to be happy with him in the next.
8. We are a unity of body and soul. A material body given by our parents and a spiritual soul directly created by God.
9. We are the only creatures who can know love and serve God.
10. We are called to a greatness that goes beyond earthly existence.
11. We are fulfilled only through our friendship with God.
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