We must go further and say: sin as severance from God presupposes a life-unity with the creator given by the Holy Spirit. The Spirit of God is God in his freedom to be present to the creature and to realise the relation of the creature to himself. The creature requires relation to the creator in order to be a creature. That relation is given and maintained by the Spirit of God who creates the existence of the creature, but of the creature as a reality distinct from God himself, yet as wholly dependent on God for what it is. There is between God and the human creature a double relation, a two-sided relation, in which the creator gives existence and life to the creature, and in which the Creature depends on the creator for existence and life. That twofold relation is a continuous relation from moment to moment. The human Creature, however, is made not only to have existence but to have fellowship with God, to have a relation filled with sharing in God's light, life and love.—T. F. Torrance, Incarnation: The Person and Life of Christ, 247
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What a fascinating thought! I've never looked at it that way before.
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