Doctrines Concerning

The origin, nature, and destiny of human beings

 

 

A. That God created man in His own image, out of the dust of the earth, on the sixth day of creation,
and breathed into him the breath of life.

Gen 1:26 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.

Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Personal Opinion:

I would like to know what "his own image" entails.

It can't mean our physical bodies are like His.  God the Father and God the Holy Ghost are both "spirit".  They have no physical bodies.  God the Son I take to have had no physical body until He was born as Jesus.  I think that's implied somewhere in Hebrews.

Another point is that our physical image is quite similar to some of the higher primates - animals.  Yet it is implied that the way we are "in His image" is unique to man.

What sticks out like a sore thumb that makes us unique from the animals is our thinking ability.  Maybe I should have said two sore thumbs because He also gave to man but not the animals a spirit; though some may hold to the contrary.

Some day I hope to see through the glass more clearly.