Question #6
of An Orthodox Catechism
Question
Did God then make man so wicked and perverse?
Answer
Not1 so, but rather he made him good, and to his own2 Image; that is, indued with true Righteousness and Holiness, that he might rightly know God his Creator, and heartily love him, and live with him blessed for ever, and that to laud and magnify3 him.