The concept of being created in the image of the Spirit's own nature is the core of my treatise. Using only the Jerusalem Bible and the Lost Books of the Bible, I take the position that since man is created in the image of God's own nature - loving, forgiving, and eternal - then that nature cannot be extinguished by the action or life-style of a human being. To destroy the nature of God within us is to destroy a part of the Spirit of Creation within us. Can man destroy something that is divine and eternal? No!
Surely Jesus held this same view when he urged his followers:
"You must...