So, when we consider love, whether a human or divine attribute, we must always do so in correlation with God’s full character, especially his holiness and goodness, never isolated from these attributes. This God-likeness is what we properly call godliness. God’s redeeming work is restoring the full array of God’s likeness in us. Every quality and every moral attribute that constitutes us creatures “after God’s likeness” is, by definition, analogical, not identical to his moral attributes. These qualities belonging to God are what Christian theologians describe as “communicable attributes,” transmittable to us, his image-bearers, to reflect the attributes of our Creator (cf. We would be wrong to say that God is simply more holy, good, loving, than we are in each of these attributes.
Rather, there is a qualitative difference in God’s character and our own. The Creator’s character and ours do not differ in mere quantity. All these qualities and attributes God gives us are analogical to his, not identical. God’s Love Is the Measure of Human Loveīecause the Creator fashioned us after his likeness, God gives us his qualities, including his moral attributes, but all with creaturely limitations, now corrupted by sin. Editor’s Note: This is a two-part article on the nature of God’s love and human love.
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