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this I’d like to go back to the beginning in Genesis 1:26&27,
        “Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to
        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 that in Genesis 9  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 is 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.
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