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To accomplish greater and greater things and thus become more like Him?<\/p>\n<p>If so, then how more like God could we be than to create life ourselves?<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe I just do not <em>get it<\/em> &#8211; anyone want to clear it up for me?<\/p>\n<p>Just a thought&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things I never understood were the so-called &#8220;7th-day laws&#8221;, at least from the religious side of things. Now, I am by no means a fan of (US) organized religion, but if you believe that God created man in His own image, then would He not want man to grow? 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