I'm taking my time through The Orthodox Church: An Introduction to Eastern Christianity, and picked it up again this morning. At the point where they discuss the difference between being created in God's image vs likeness. Never heard it pu this way.
Just love that.
Quote:
The image denotes the powers with which each one of us is endowed by God from the first moment of our existence; the likeness is not an endowment which we possess from the start, but a goal at which we must aim, something which we can only acquire by degrees. However sinful we may be, we never lose the image; but the likeness depends upon our moral choice, upon our 'virtue', and so it is destroyed by sin.
Just love that.