
Genesis 1:26-31
26 Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
27 So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
29 And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. 30 And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. 31 And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.
Idols/Images/Likeness:
Numbers 33:52 “…destroy all their figured stones and destroy all their metal images…”
Exodus 20:4 You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea. NLT
Isaiah 40:18-19a To whom then will you liken God, or what likeness compare with him? An idol…
Five “Image” Meanings
• “Image” as the physical representation of the invisible.
(I was made to be the physical
• “Image” as the sacred object in the temple: The Garden of Eden as a Temple
(I was made as a sacred
• “Image” as exalted or privileged.
(I was made to be
• “Image” as offspring or heir.
Genesis 5:3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own
likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
(I was made to be God’s
• “Image” as replicating God’s activity.
(I was made to replicate
1) Knowing I am made in the image of God should remind me of
2) I need to honor the image of God that is in
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