Section 5
in the preparation of the Man-Savior. I encour age you to study these three and a half chapters of Luke again and pay attention to the different aspects of the Man-Savior revealed in them.
THE MAN CREATED BY GOD
In the Gospel of Luke we see the kind of man God intended to have in Genesis 1 and 2. This means that God's intention was to have a Godman. In Genesis 1 we have the man created by God in His image. For man to be created in God's image means that man is created according to God's attributes. God is love and light, and He is also holy and righteous. Love, light, holiness, and righteousness are God's attributes, and God created man according to these attributes. How ever, the man created by God in Genesis 1 merely bore God's image. He did not have God within him. Hence, he was merely a God-created man; he was not yet a God-man.
THE TREE OF LIFE
Because God wanted the man created by Him to become a God-man, after creating man God placed him in front of the tree of life. The tree of life denotes God. God's intention was that the man created by Him would receive Him, as