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It's repeated 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 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, thinking, and reasoning, abstract thought,
loving and worshiping God, and 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 articulating symbolic speech.

Man was "made" out of previously created material – ground dust.
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 rejected the Creator to the degree that when He lived among them, they killed Him.

Six Thousand Years with Ken Ham
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPQNhMVSMy0

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