Genesis 1:26-27 (ESV). 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."

Aug 11, 2020 · The LXX in this verse uses the Greek word εἰκών for image and the word can be understood to mean a copy. God made a copy of Himself in Adam. For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect ...

Feb 9, 2022 · The word image in Col 1:15 does not refer to a picture or a cutout of paper or other material. Consider how, when we say a son is the “spitting image” of his father, we do not mean that the son is not a real person in his own right. Likewise, Jesus is at once always a real person and always the image of God.

So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them" (Genesis 1:26-27) When God says "Let Us make man in Our image", the next verse says that man is made in the image of God, thus the Us is God. But Us is a plural word, why not, "let me make man in my image?"

26—And Elohim said, [I will] make man [in the] image, [of my] 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 creeps upon the earth. 27—So Elohim created man [in his] image, in the image of Elohim created he him; male ...

Mar 3, 2024 · Image and likeness are two separate ideas: image is tselem in Hebrew meaning a representative. Likeness is demuth meaning to be like,or similtude. I understand it like this: image is like a robot that looks (in appearance) like its creator and likeness is the way the robot moves and speaks that is similar to its creator.

Nov 28, 2023 · The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. Thus, if Jesus is the image of the Father, then Jesus could correctly assert that. John 14:9 - He who has seen Me has seen the Father; and how do you say, Show to us the Father? All that we need to know about God is revealed in Jesus Christ. Again, this is taught in -

Mar 9, 2020 · God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. (So to speak, through Abraham, Levi also, he who receives tithes, has been made to pay tithes, for he was still in the loins of his father when Melchisedec met him.) I'd say Gen 1 doesn't contradict 2 because Eve was 'in' Adam when God made Adam.

Jan 27, 2023 · Note that the word can include a carved statue, image or an engraved/stamped image as per a coin in Matt 22:20, Mark 12:16, Luke 20:24. It is immediately apparent that the meanings of these two words overlap. In the book of Revelation, they are held as quite distinct.

Jan 15, 2025 · Only humans are created in God’s image (Genesis 1:26–27) to be conformed to the likeness of His Son, Jesus Christ (Romans 8:29). The rebellious angels were not given an opportunity for their sins to be forgiven. Instead, they are awaiting “the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels” (Matthew 25:41).