1. Gospel of Life Chapter 2 I Came That They May Have Life The Christian Message of Life

2. Life is Good (Exercise)

3. The Life, which God gives Man, is quite different from the Life of all living creatures

4. Man is the only creature Capable of knowing and loving his Creator

5. Man is a manifestation of God in the World, a sign of his presence, a trace of his glory.

6. Saint Ambrose said: The sixth day is finished and the Creator of the world ends with the formation of that masterpiece which is Man, who exercises dominion over all living creatures and is as it were the crown of the universe and the supreme beauty of every created being.

7. God in creating human beings: Endowed them with strength like his own an made them in his own image. He provided them with spiritual faculties which are distinctly human. Book of Sirach

8. And (Book of Sirach continued) He filled them with knowledge and understanding and showed them good and evil

9. The ability to attain truth and freedom are human prerogatives. Deuteronomy 32:4

10. For God created man for incorruption and made him in the image of his own eternity. Wisdom 2:23

11. Whereas the disobedience of Adam had ruined and marred Gods plan for human life and introduced death into the world, the redemptive obedience of Christ is the source of Grace poured upon the human race opening wide to everyone the gates of the Kingdom of Life Apostle Paul

12. The first man, Adam, became a living being; the last Adam (Christ) became a living spirit 1 Cor 15:45 Whoever lives and believes in me shall never die. John 11:26

13. Gospel of Life Chapter 2 I Came That They May Have Life The Christian Message of Life