Even after sin entered into creation, mankind retained something of the image of God. The Bible reconciles the mystery of human splendor and wickedness. Man is complex. Man is a paradox. Man is both “the glory and the garbage of the universe.”4 “We human beings are a mystery to ourselves,” writes theologian Daniel Migliore. “We are rational and irrational, civilized and savage, capable of deep friendship and murderous hostility, free and in bondage, the pinnacle of creation and its greatest danger. We are Rembrandt and Hitler, Mozart and Stalin, Antigone and Lady Macbeth, Ruth and Jezebel.”5
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