“It is useful from time to time to ask why it is that God bothered. Why didn’t God simply say, ‘Well, that didn’t work’ and start over. He could have… The reason, if we look into our teaching and if we look into what God reveals about Himself, the reason is because He made the human being in His image and likeness. He could not but love that image and likeness so much that he had to fix it”.

(Archbishop Melchisedek in ‘Life Transfigured’ journal,  2022)