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IN BRIEF
380 "Father,... you formed man in your own
likeness and set him over the whole world to serve you, his creator, and to rule
over all creatures" (Roman Missal, EP IV, 118).
381 Man is predestined to reproduce the image of
God's Son made man, the "image of the invisible God" (Col 1:15), so
that Christ shall be the first-born of a multitude of brothers and sisters (cf.
Eph 1:3-6; Rom 8:29).
382 "Man, though made of body and soul, is a
unity" (GS 14 § 1). The doctrine of the faith affirms that the
spiritual and immortal soul is created immediately by God.
383 "God did not create man a solitary being. From
the beginning, "male and female he created them" (Gen 1:27). This
partnership of man and woman constitutes the first form of communion between
persons" (GS 12 § 4).
384
Revelation makes known to us the state of original holiness
and justice of man and woman before sin: from their friendship with God flowed
the happiness of their existence in paradise.
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