27 God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.


-Genesis 1

  

















   

I.II I desire that you I should discover to me, what, as you know, many besides myself ask, for what necessity and cause God, who is omnipotent, should have assumed the littleness and weakness of human nature for the sake of its renewal?


-Cur Deus Homo? St. Anselm




















   

II.VI If it be necessary, therefore, as it appears, that the heavenly kingdom be made up of men, and this cannot be effected unless the aforesaid satisfaction be made, which none but God can make and none but man ought to make, it is necessary for the God-man to make it.


-Cur Deus Homo? St. Anselm
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