Our relationship to our neighbour is bound up with our relationship to God; our response to the love of God, saving us through Christ, is shown to be effective in his love and service of people. Christian love of neighbour and justice cannot be separated. For love implies an absolute demand for justice, namely a recognition of the dignity and rights of one's neighbour. Justice attains its inner fullness only in love. Because every person is truly a visible image of the invisible God and a sibling of Christ, the Christian finds in every person God himself and God's absolute demand for justice and love.
Sorry, I have to disagree with due respect. This statement sounds "New Age" to me. In particular, I cannot agree with the notion that "
every person is truly a visible image of the invisible God and a sibling of Christ, the Christian finds in every person God himself and God's absolute demand for justice and love". In fact, no one is truly a visible image of the invisible God unless he or she is cleansed by the blood of Christ our Lord and Saviour. No one is a sibling of Christ as well. Christ is a person of the Trinity. He is God the Creator and we are His creation.
Romans 3:22-26
3:22 That is, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, to all those who have faith; and one man is not different from another,
3:23 For all have done wrong and are far from the glory of God;
3:24 And they may have righteousness put to their credit, freely, by his grace, through the salvation which is in Christ Jesus:
3:25 Whom God has put forward as the sign of his mercy, through faith, by his blood, to make clear his righteousness when, in his pity, God let the sins of earlier times go without punishment;
3:26 And to make clear his righteousness now, so that he might himself be upright, and give righteousness to him who has faith in Jesus.
