Genesis 1:26-27 (NRSV)
Then God said, “Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.”
So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
The very reason God created us was for all of us to be in relationship with God
At the most basic level, of course, your life can be considered “life” and not simply existence because of a relationship with God. –Sweet, What Matters Most, p. 13
Romans 3:23 (New English Translation)
…for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
John 15:15-16 (NIV)
I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.
John 14:5-6 (NIV)
Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?”
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.