ABSTRACT
The divine world of the Christians, as articulated by Christian leaders in conciliar creeds, was a fascinating, creative combination that attempted to balance the belief in the one creator God of Genesis with the belief that there are some actors in the divine drama of redemption. The combination also tried to safeguard the incomprehensibility of God, while maintaining that humans can say something about the divine world. There were also Christians who maintained that humans had been divided from the beginning of time into groups and that some were powerless to change for the better or the worse. In general, Christian leaders stressed that humans have free will to choose how to live and that marriage, like creation itself, is good. The sin of Adam has weakened humans, has brought on their mortality, ignorance, desire, but a human can overcome that sin.
