The image of God, displayed in Adam and Eve, lost through their sin, given to us in Word and Sacrament, changes how we view the world and empowers us to live as the family of God.

Genesis 2:18-24 (EHV)

18The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is a suitable partner for him.” 19Out of the soil the Lord God had formed every wild animal and every bird of the sky, and he brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that became its name. 20The man gave names to all the livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every wild animal, but for Adam no helper was found who was a suitable partner for him. 21The Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. As the man slept, the Lord God took a rib and closed up the flesh where it had been. 22The Lord God built a woman from the rib that he had taken from the man and brought her to the man.

23The man said,

“Now this one is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.

She will be called “woman,” because she was taken out of man.

24For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and

will remain united with his wife, and they will become one flesh.“