Israel is to make no image of Yahweh, but Israel is to be such an image of God in the world.... We should note, however, that human beings represent God's cause in the world not primarily in spiritual ways but in very concrete and practical ones. They represent God's concern for a clean and beautiful earth, a productive earth, one filled with the full variety of the creatures called into being at the Creation. They represent God's concern for the sharing of the goods of earth in a tolerably fair way, for the maintenance of life and its possibilities, for the furthering of the institutional arrangements that preserve life and make it flower.
- Walter Harrelson
The Ten Commandments and Human Rights
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