QUOTE : ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. (John 17:20–23) Sin isolates people from God and from other people. It thereby destroys the essence of humanity, our imago Dei. Jesus came to restore this divine image by breaking down the walls that separate us from God and each other. Indeed, he is the paradigmatic “image of God” precisely because, unlike fallen humanity, he exemplifies a perfect love for God the Father and a perfect love for others.