We believe we are part of God’s creation, made in the image of God. This means that we are free to make choices: to love, to create, to reason, and to live in harmony with creation and with God. We live apart from God and out of harmony with creation because, from the beginning, human beings have misused their freedom and made wrong choices. We do not use our freedom as we should because we rebel against God, and we put ourselves in the place of God. But, our help is in God. God first helped us by revealing himself and his will, through nature and history, through many seers and saints, and especially the prophets of Israel.