![]() ![]() How could an all-good God allow his creation to perish, to become undone? How could God redeem His creation? Or perhaps the question is: ‘Who could redeem His creation’? But death entered the world by the envy of the devil” (Wisdom 2:23-24). We were created in the image and likeness of God, and in fact “For God created man for immortality, and made him an image of His own eternity. ![]() According to Athanasius, our fall from paradise left God with a ‘Divine Dilemma’. St Athanasius, a fourth century bishop of Alexandria, penned his treatise ‘On the Incarnation’ to consider this very paradox. We may have heard the phrase ‘God became man so that man could become God’, and wondered how such an event could be possible? For how could God, in his omnipotence and perfection, become human like us? And more so, how could we humans, fallen and prone to sin, ever contemplate becoming like God? ![]()
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