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regeneration through Christ. When God had made the world he found it good and he created man in his
own image but with the Fall of Man both man and the universe were corrupted. So the disorder and
chaos are products of sin and are perpetually striving to come again. Man's only way to salvation is
through God's grace. The chain of being is a metaphor served to express the unimaginable plenitude of
God's creation, its order and unity. The chain stretched from the foot of God's throne to the meanest
inanimate objects. Every tiny part of creation was a link in the chain and there could be no gap. First
there is mere existence, the inanimate class: the elements, liquids and metals, next- existence and life,
the vegetative class, next- existence, life and feeling, they lead up to man, who has not only existence,
life and feeling, but understanding
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