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Having the “image” or “likeness” of God means, in the simplest terms, that we were made to resemble God. Adam did not resemble God in the sense of God’s having flesh and blood. Scripture says that “God is spirit” (John 4:24) and therefore exists without a body.
When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created. When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
Genesis 1:27 tells us that we are made in the image of God. But what does that really mean? We are made in God’s image because God wants to be in a relationship with us.
Sin defaces the image of God, but it doesn’t destroy it. Pastor John explains what it means to be made in the image of God in this age of redemption.
Being made in the image and likeness of God, therefore, is not simply a list of divine qualities —it is a journey of discovery about the goodness of God, our Maker, who humbled himself enough to take on the very likeness he gave us so that we could become one with him.
What does Scripture mean when it addresses the image of God and what does it mean for us to be made in its likeness?