The Fatherhood of God
The Fatherhood of God
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But io say that this depravity can totally wreck God's image in the soul, that it obliterates the very semblance of the Divine in the nature of man, that it wholly defiles him "in all faculties and parts of soul and body," is utterly inconsistent with the Scrip- ture we have cited, and is foreign to the whole Digitized by Google 52 THE FATHERHOOD OF GOD.
tenor of theological teaching up to the time of Augustine. When we speak of the image of God in which man was created we must admit, as Dr. Ma...rk Hopkins truly says, that " the image of God to be thus created was not anything in- cidental or that could be separated from man, but must consist in something so essential to him that if he should lose it he would cease to be a man. ... So long as man continues to be rational, moral, and free, .and hence capable of knowing God, he will be in His image ^ and when he ceases to be rational, moral, and free he will no longer be man.'' ^ Or in the fine phrase of Canon Liddon: "The fall of man consists rather in the privation of God's supernatural grace than in a positive corruption of all his faculties, such as has been imagined by some modern divines ; and as the doctrine was under- stood by the ancient Church, the fall left human nature dismantled indeed, but something less than a shapeless ruin.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
But io say that this depravity can totally wreck God's image in the soul, that it obliterates the very semblance of the Divine in the nature of man, that it wholly defiles him "in all faculties and parts of soul and body," is utterly inconsistent with the Scrip- ture we have cited, and is foreign to the whole Digitized by Google 52 THE FATHERHOOD OF GOD.
tenor of theological teaching up to the time of Augustine. When we speak of the image of God in which man was created we must admit, as Dr. Ma...rk Hopkins truly says, that " the image of God to be thus created was not anything in- cidental or that could be separated from man, but must consist in something so essential to him that if he should lose it he would cease to be a man. ... So long as man continues to be rational, moral, and free, .and hence capable of knowing God, he will be in His image ^ and when he ceases to be rational, moral, and free he will no longer be man.'' ^ Or in the fine phrase of Canon Liddon: "The fall of man consists rather in the privation of God's supernatural grace than in a positive corruption of all his faculties, such as has been imagined by some modern divines ; and as the doctrine was under- stood by the ancient Church, the fall left human nature dismantled indeed, but something less than a shapeless ruin.
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