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Why Did God Create Man In His Image? by judedwriter(m): 8:17pm On Jul 30, 2017
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.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."

God created man to exercise dominion, power and authority over the earth and ALL that dwell in it.
God created the earth by His Word and put man in charge of the earth; in other words, God "elected" man to act as His representative on earth.

Man was created by God to exercise God's own dominion over the earth. How was this possible? God gave Adam and Eve a measure of His GLORY.

What is the glory of God? It is His glorious presence; it is His royalty as the king of the universe. When a king is ushered in an event, he normally walks in majestically with a train of servants attending to him and wearing a royal regale.

If there was one king who stood out in glory, it was Solomon. Solomon's throne was overlaid with gold; on each side of his throne were 6 lions representing his great royalty. Even Jesus called solomon glorious.

Infact what makes a king is his glory. Take away glory from a king and he is like any other ordinary citizen.

God gave Adam and Eve glory to govern the earth as kings and queens. Everything on earth is subjected to God's glory-no adversary, no problem, no demon, no witch, etc. can resist God's glory without submitting.

Adam and Eve dominated the earth by God's glorious, majestic presence, which shone like radiant light on them. Everything on earth was subjected to them like as to God, until Adam fell into sin.

Romans 3:23
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Adam and mankind fell short of God's glory when sin came in...but Jesus the second Adam, came to restore God's glory back to man.

So in a nutshell, we can say God created man in His image to manifest His glory by taking dominion over the earth.

But in sharp contrast, this is not the primary reason God created man; no. God created man primarily for fellowship and secondarily for dominion.
The first scripture i shared above God said:
" Let us make man in our image, after our likeness AND let them have dominion..."
God created man in His image to fellowship intimately with Him. It's in the place of fellowshiping with God that His glory comes on us and we can then dominate like Adam did the earth powerfully.

I pity modern day believers who have no or very little time to fellowship with God. Such believers lack God's glory to dominate negative situations and demonic forces harassing them in the earth.
God wants us to fellowship more with Him in His presence by praising Him, studying His Word and praying in tongues.

As we do so habitually, God's glory will arise upon our lives subjecting all creation in the earth to submit to us; this also includes demonic powers, spiritual enemies and all the issues of life!

Re: Why Did God Create Man In His Image? by iamgenius(m): 11:41pm On Jul 30, 2017
So that d god (not God) can have someone like him. Like dat god has 2 eyes, we do too. 2 ears, we do too, legs like ours, abdomen wit intestines, Bro OP, wat I dont understand is does god eat? I'm sure ur answer is NO, but why does he has intestines. And does he has Pen.Is or pus.sy? Pls Explain.

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