The passage you selected from Ellen White\u2019s book Education beautifully shows the connection between creation, the fall, redemption, and humanity\u2019s true purpose.<\/em><\/p>\n The biblical answer to the question of life\u2019s purpose begins not with human dreams, profession, or public recognition, but with God\u2019s design. Humanity was created to reflect the Creator\u2019s character: His love, holiness, wisdom, mercy, and justice. Sin distorted this image, but God\u2019s plan of salvation aims to restore it.<\/p>\n \"Then God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness... So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him.\" Gen. 1:26\u201327<\/a><\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Your main passage from Education is fitting to place at the beginning of the page, for it directly calls redemption \"the great object of life.\" After it, you may present a short quotation that unfolds this thought:<\/p>\n \"To restore in man the image of his Maker, to bring him back to the perfection in which he was created, to promote the development of body, mind, and soul, that the divine purpose in his creation might be realized\u2014this was to be the work of redemption. This is the great object of life.\" Ellen White, Education, pp. 15\u201316.<\/em><\/p>\n Salvation is not limited to the forgiveness of past sins. Christ forgives, cleanses, and gradually transforms a person. His goal is that believers become like Him in character. That is why the Christian life is a path of daily spiritual growth, not merely accepting the right beliefs.<\/p>\n \u201cFor whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren\u201d Rom 8:29<\/a><\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u201cBut we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord\u201d 2 Cor. 3:18<\/a><\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n A strong addition would be this thought from Ellen White: \u201cWhen the character of Christ shall be perfectly reproduced in His people, then He will come to claim them as His own.\u201d Ellen White, \u201cChrist\u2019s Object Lessons,\u201d p. 69.<\/em> This quotation connects the personal purpose of life with the hope of Christ\u2019s Second Coming.<\/p>\n The restored image of God is seen not primarily in knowledge, status, or abilities, but in love for God and for people. Love changes motives, words, and attitudes toward family, the church, the needy, and even those who cause pain. Therefore, true education embraces the whole human being: body, mind, and soul.<\/p>\n \u201cLove, the basis of creation and redemption, is the basis of true education\u2026 To love Him with all the heart, with all the mind, and with all the soul means the highest development of every power. It means that in the whole being\u2014the body, the mind, and the soul\u2014the image of God is to be restored.\u201d Ellen White, \u201cEducation,\u201d p. 16.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cLove the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind\u2026 Love your neighbor as yourself\u201d Matt 22:37\u201339<\/a><\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n This is an especially fitting quotation for the theme \u201cPurpose of Life,\u201d because it shows that God\u2019s purpose is not selfish self-fulfillment. A person finds true life when he or she dedicates strength to serving God and neighbor.<\/p>\n God saves us solely by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. At the same time, a saved person does not remain inactive: he or she is created anew for good works. Work, study, caring for health, raising children, honesty, and mercy can become service to God if they are done out of love for Him.<\/p>\n \u201cFor we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them\u201d Eph. 2:10<\/a><\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Ellen White wrote: \u201cThe highest education is the knowledge of God and a life in harmony with His will.\u201d Compare Ellen White, \u201cEducation,\u201d chapter \u201cThe Source and Aim of True Education.\u201d<\/em> Therefore, the purpose of life includes not escaping daily responsibilities, but faithfully fulfilling them in the presence of God.<\/p>\n God\u2019s plan does not end with a brief earthly existence. Christ gives His children eternal life, where the consequences of sin will be finally removed. This hope makes earthly life meaningful: every day is preparation for eternity and an opportunity to know the character of God.<\/p>\nHumanity was created for God\u2019s likeness<\/h2>\n
Redemption is the transformation of character<\/h2>\n
Love is the highest expression of God\u2019s image<\/h2>\n
Good works are the fruit, not the price, of salvation<\/h2>\n
The hope of eternal life gives purpose its fullness<\/h2>\n