ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the image of God through the story in the book of Genesis. The whole creation account of Genesis 1 presents the creation by God of an orderly, structured, predictable world out of formless chaos. The story of Genesis 1 pays particular attention to the place of human beings in the ordered universe. The story in Genesis 2 and 3 invites people to think about human life and our relationship to God in terms of an original state of communion with God in a paradise garden from which men and women are shut out because of their disobedience. The freedom of men and women requires a distinction between two types of relationship between God and humanity. The first is the relation of human beings to God in creation in which God upholds the universe for the benefit of mankind. The possibility of knowing God, as well as of sin and redemption, belongs to this second relationship.
