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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.