The human person is created out of love, for love and is destined to flourish. God, who is perfect love, has created each person in the image and likeness of God. Each person is unique and equal in dignity to all others. Persons are rational and free beings having both a body and a soul. Human beings are in relationship to all of God's creation. God has made each person in the Divine image and likeness as an inseparable unity of body, mind and spirit. God gifts each individual with absolute and enduring dignity and the unconditional love of God. Through God the human person has the possibility of life lived to the full.

Christianity believes that everything in the universe is created by God, sustained by God, and destined to return to God. Human beings hold a special place in this Creation because they alone are created in God's image and likeness (Gen 1). Human beings have been created with God-like abilities so that they can be God's presence in the world. Human beings are called to use these God-given abilities to continue God's creative work in the world. These abilities include free choice, rationality, the ability to relate to others, the capacities to do the right thing and above all, to love.