ABSTRACT
The nature of God establishes the nature of both our creation and salvation because God’s intent in creating us is to save us by giving us the character of God’s own life. Behind the whole story of creation and salvation lies the general fact that God wants us to enjoy what God is in unity with him. We are created, in specific, to be the ones who might one day find our salvation in and through Jesus Christ, a human being who, in being the very Word of God, has the divine nature for his own, and whose life accordingly displays in human form the character of God’s own life across its course. In virtue of our union with Christ, by being taken up into his own life, we are to enjoy divine life and live a human life of divine character in something like the way Jesus did.
