Nanja
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The Fall of man was necessary to fulfill the fact that man originally was made in the image and likeness of God, which image is ultimately conformity to Christ, who is the Ultimate Image and Likeness to God Col 1:15
Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
How can man be in the image of God without conformity to Christ ?
He can't, It's impossible !
The only portion of humanity that are conformed to the Image of God's Son are those He foreknew and predestinated to be so; and it's evidenced by their Spiritual Creation in Christ.
Rom. 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
2 Cor. 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Now all the rest of humanity were made in the image of their father the devil John 8:44; Mat. 13:38.