Here,
we see the privilege and responsibility of being human. As well as the
privilege - created in the image of God (1:26-27), there is also the
responsibility - in relation to (a) the creation: "farm the land and ...
take care of it " (15); (b) the Creator: "you must never eat from the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil" (17). Human life is lived within
two horizons - (i) the temporal or earthly horizon: we have
relationships with one another: "It is not good for the man to be alone"
(18); (ii) the eternal or heavenly horizon: we are related to God.
Human relationships do not fully satisfy us. There is a longing for God
our Creator: "He has put a sense of eternity in people's minds" (Ecclesiastes 3:11). He has given us good things to be enjoyed (1 Timothy 4:4). He has also created us to be "inwardly ... renewed" by feeding on the "things" that "last forever" (2 Corinthians 4:16-18).
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