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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 man He would
see His Son. When He saw man as He created man to be He would
be pleased because man would radiate Christ. That was God’s