God loved humans from the beginning

Genesis 1:26-27, 31

God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.