Section 7
human virtues were created by God to contain His attributes. Human love, light, righteousness, and holiness are created capacities to contain the divine love, light, righteousness, and holiness.
People everywhere agree that hating others is contrary to our conscience. Furthermore, it is also contrary to our conscience to lie, steal, and do things in darkness. Even an unsaved person may have the sense that it would be unrighteous to keep extra change given to him by mistake in a restaurant or store.
The human virtues created by God are the capacity to contain God's attributes. God created man in this way with the intention that man would take Him as the tree of life to be his life and content.
ADAM'S FAILURE TO BECOME
A GOD-MAN
If Adam had eaten of the tree of life and thereby had taken God into him as life, he would have been filled with God, and his human vir tues would have been filled with God's attri butes. Then man's virtues would have expressed God's attributes.
As we know, Adam failed to fulfill God's purpose, and he spoiled God's design. God had