Scripture Scholars-in-training

* What it means to be created in the image of God *

Stephanie Douglass
Mod 5 * grade 9
Mr. Raia - Theology

When asked what it means to be created in the image of God, you think of what he looked like, his personality, his flaws and his strengths. But who knows exactly what God looks like? God was a man right? Then how do women look like him?The answer is not as complex as you might think. We, as Gods people have the superior knowledge that he shared with us. No animal, bird, plant,or bug will ever have the knowledge we have, because we as humans are created in the image of god. Who's to say that bugs weren't created in the image of God? Maybe bugs know more about life on earth as we know, but have no way of communicating it to us. We also have to think about sins. If everyone were created in the image of God, would there be sin? Was God a sinner? No, we aren't exactly like him, but in his image of himself, would we be sinners ; with chances of killing his people and going to hell?Being created in the image of God is not looking like god, or smelling like him, but understanding him, and having his knowledge and qualities, yet shown differently.Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. - (Gen. 1:26-27 NIV)

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