Section 5
contain God, man was created with emotions. Emotion is extremely important, for God Him self is rich in emotion; He is not a God of stone.
All of man's virtues are created according to God's attributes. For example, human kindness is an image of God's kindness. The same is true of gentleness. Man's gentleness is according to the likeness of the gentleness of God.
THE CAPACITY TO BE GODLY
We are "gloves" in the likeness of the divine hand. This means that we do not have the thumb, but the form of the thumb; not the fingers, but the likeness of the fingers. For example, our gen tleness is a container for God's gentleness. Our gentleness is only the form, whereas God's gen tleness is the substance, the reality. Because we were created according to the likeness of God, we have the capacity to be godly, that is, to be like God. Animals can never be godly, for they are not in the likeness of God and cannot con tain Him. But in our love, kindness, and gentle ness we can show forth godliness, God-likeness.
In His creation of man, God made man as a vessel to contain Him with the intention of com ing into this vessel and filling it with Himself. When God enters into the vessels created by