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Another student answers that humans are made in the image of God and therefore share divine traits such as free will in a way other creatures do not.
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Human uniqueness
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Jiang concludes from Dante and Genesis that humans are different because they have a soul breathed directly by God, as shown in the special creation of Adam.
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Jiang defines the soul as God putting a part of himself into humans.
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Jiang restates his model that God creates the laws of the universe, those laws generate everything including evolution and human bodies, and human uniqueness begins only where God directly touches humans by putting part of himself into them.
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"Because we are made in the image of God, but all the other creatures aren't. And so we have his traits, I guess, or..."
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"Okay. Why are we different from animals and trees? We have a soul. Excuse me? We have a soul. How do we know we..."
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"God breathed into him, and that's what gives Adam life, okay? So in other words, God put a part of himself in us. We..."
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"No, that's the complete opposite of what I just said. Yes. None of them have souls. Okay. So God creates the universe. The universe..."
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Paradise first appears as receptivity rather than rank, then the lecture widens into vows, memory, resurrection, original sin, and Jiang's culminating wager that God created humanity because perfection alone cannot imagine.
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