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Consider the statement, "Let us make man, according to our likeness." Now go down in verse 27, "And
God created man in His image, in the image of God He created him.” Man is made in the image of
God. It's repeated again in chapter 5, it says in verse 1, "This is the book of the generations of Adam in
the day when God created man, He made him in the likeness of God."

All the rest of the creation is phrased, “Let there be….” But here we find the Godhead having a divine
council to determine “Let us make man in our image”.

Man is created in the image of God. What is does this mean? Most likely it means:
1. Spirit- the eternal aspect of our spirit that animals do not possess.
2. Soul or Mind -Further it could include our mind in the understanding that Man and not animals
are capable of moral choices, appreciation of beauty, of thinking and reasoning, abstract thought,
capable of loving and worshipping God, capable of free thought and a will.
3. Body – Even though God does not exist in a body. Every time He has chosen to interact with
people He has chosen the form of humans. This is true of the angels as well. There must be
something of the human form that is uniquely appropriate to God’s
manifestation of Himself: erect posture, upward gazing
countenance, facial expressions, emotional feelings, brain and
tongue capable of articulate, symbolic speech.

Man was “made” out of previously created material – the dust of the
ground. However, man was “created” in the image of God. While the
physical composition of man may come from previously created matter,
the stamp of the image of God on us is unique in all of creation. God
brought that which is the image of God in us into existence out of
nothing.

Donald Barnhouse once wrote, "God gives man brains to smelt iron and make a hammer,
hammerhead and nails. God grows a tree and gives man the strength to cut it down and the brains to
fashion a hammer handle from the wood. And when man has the hammer and the nails, God will put
out His hand and let man drive nails through it and place Him on a cross in the supreme demonstration
that men are without excuse."
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They reject the creator to the degree that when He was incarnate, they killed Him.

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