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Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over
the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth,
and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. And
God created man in His own image, in the image of God He
created him; male and female He created them.”
Man was created in the image of God. Don’t read that
“la, la, la”. What does that mean? One thing we know it means
is that man is unique. That’s one reason in Genesis 9 that it says
we can eat animals, because animals were not created in the
image of God. Only man was created in the image of God; not
the angels, not animals, not insects and not fish. That's why
evolution is foolish. It’s not that an animal can adapt and
become like a man. It’s foolish to claim that something that is
not created in God’s image can become created in God’s image.
I want to tell you exactly what it means that God created
man in His image. Many books are written on that but God
makes it clear in the Bible. We have His inspired answer about
what is the image of God. Listen to these three verses. 2
Corinthians 4:3&4, “And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled
to those who are perishing, in whose case the god of this world
has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that they might not
see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the
image of God.” Christ, the image of God; that’s simple words.
Listen to Colossians 1:15, “And He is the image of the
invisible God, the first-born of all creation.” He is the image of
the invisible God. Hebrews 1:3, “And He is the radiance of
His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and
upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had
made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the
Majesty on high..” Jesus is the exact representation of God.
The image of God is Christ. That was God’s original intention.
That was the divine idea. This is man as God created man to
be. This is what makes man different from all other creatures.
This is the heart of what it means to be human. Man was created
in the image of God.
When God first created man in His image, God could
look down from heaven at man and see Himself. When He saw
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