![]() ![]() It involves the Character (Image) and Nature (Likeness) of God – Likeness (intellect, emotion, will) and Image (Moral Attributes: Holy, righteous, love, faithful). God’s Image is spiritual, mental, and volitional (power). God not only gave Adam & Eve Personality – Mind to think, emotion to feel, and will for making decisions – but God also gave Adam & Eve a spirit that enabled them to know Him (God) and worship Him (God). Unlike Angels and the animals, Adam & Eve have very special relationship with God. All of God’s purposes were to centre on them (Genesis 1:26-28) – Genesis 1:31a “He (God) had made, and indeed it was very good….”Īdam & Eve were created in God’s Image and Likeness (Genesis 1:26-27). Luke 3:38 calls Adam “the son of God.”Īdam & Eve were God’s masterpiece and the focal point of His (God’s) Creation. God created Adam to be totally dependent on Him – “For in Him, we live, and move, and have our being” (Acts 17:28). ![]() ![]() So, God created man in His own image, in the image of God created he him male and female created he them” (KJV).Īdam & Eve were not the product of some galactic accident nor is he the result of evolution. We are created “in the image and likeness” of God – Genesis 1:26-27 “And 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 fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. ![]()
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