After the fall, humanity entered a state of imperfection. The fact that humans were made in the image of God had been skewed. Athanasius expounds on this subject in On the Incarnation , showing that the fallen state is not one of just corruption, but also of non-being. God, who loves man deeply, chose for mankind not to stay this way forever but to redeem it. Non-being is a state of corruption caused by turning away from God, the source of perfection, and in order to remedy this downfall, Jesus became incarnate. Existing in the state of corruption also means one is non-being. Non-being does not mean that something does not exist or is not real. Instead, non-being means that something is no longer functioning how it should or is not fulfilling its purpose. Non-being is not being what something was created to be. A table is no longer a table if someone uses it as a chair. However, the table is not a chair either because that is not its intended purpose. Since the object is not a table...