A Perspective on the Reconciliation of Numbers: The One State of 'We' vs. the Judeo-Christian God Anonymous 12th Grade

“So God created man in his own image, / in the image of God he created him; / male and female he created them” (Genesis 1:27). As the Image of God, man reflects God in many ways through his created nature. He is rational, moral, vocational, creative, and relational. All of these five attributes were perverted through the fall, by which every aspect of man’s status and identity was affected. In his status and identity as a relational being, man’s relationships with God, others, and himself were fundamentally harmed and in great need of reconciliation. In his novel We, Yevgeny Zamyatin gives an unsettling representation of a futuristic, utopian society of men who live in superficial and unnatural peace with themselves and their surroundings. There are vast differences between the Gospel’s view and One State’s view of the reconciliation of man’s relationships.

According to Christian doctrine, man is reconciled to God through Christ’s saving work, whereby Christ bore man’s sin and His righteousness was imputed to man. As a result of Christ’s sacrifice, man is declared righteous before God and reconciled to Him. The theology of One State, which is presented through a series of several seemingly contradictory statements, approaches...