God, Genesis tells us, passed on his likeness to human beings. He put some characteristics of God in us. And thus, some of what is in us is also in God. Mind-blowingly, we share some percentage of image or makeup with God himself. As follows, there is likely some theological weight in being imprinted with bits of God. If we really pause to think this through, it's almost as if people are sacraments; that our very bodies are symbols of a spiritual reality. That in doing as God commanded Adam an Even--in serving as guardians, in clinging together in tribes, in distributing God's blessing--perhaps we even mirror little bits of God to each other. That in knowing each other, perhaps we are able to know some of God.

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