The purpose of creation was for man to live in communion with God, according to the laws that govern His Kingdom. This is the highest calling to which man can aspire. (Put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. Ephesians 4:24)

We have a soul and a spirit. God has endowed us with the ability to think, to reason, to believe, to make decisions, to admire, to love, and to choose. This is because He predetermined in His plan that we should be like Him. Yet He did not stop at this mere likeness.

God created us and equipped us with these capacities so that we would use them. It is our responsibility to develop them and to work together with Him in order to reach “the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.” (And He gave some to be… pastors and teachers, to equip the saints… until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. Ephesians 4:11-13)