A couple of thoughts from my reading today . . .
(1.) "How often does Moses, and the Spirit of God through him, find it necessary to repeat this assurance that God created man in His own image, in the image of God, in God's likeness." Never really thought about that before. Repetition so that we believe it. We look around and it sure doesn't look like the image of God around us! Even in the Church. Sinners all around. But God said it, so it is so. It is a matter of faith, not of sight.
(2.) God placed Adam in the Garden to take care of it, and in tending to those trees and God's creation, Adam loved them. Interesting thought. Which would mean, I suppose, that when Adam and Eve saw that the tree they were not supposed to eat from was good (according to satan), they despised the other trees now. Now they didn't love them - they loved that one. The others now paled in comparison. Kind of like a child who loves his toy . . . until he sees another one! Then the toy he had suddenly isn't so great anymore. Hamann makes this comparison several times - to think of these people like children; "the childhood of the human race."
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