“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.”
‭‭Genesis‬ ‭1:26‬ ‭KJV‬‬

The above verse has to be one of the most popular verses in the Bible, reason being because it supposedly introduced mankind in the Bible.

Although most people believe that this particular verse is talking about Adam or the ordinary human but deeper understanding of the scriptures reveal quite differently. So we start to wonder who is this man that the Bible is talking about, the man who’s given all powers and dominion over everything God has made.

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

This verse above gives us a clear understanding of the man who God was talking about. Although most Bible translations have misappropriated this particular verse but KJV highlights it better enough for us to understand the man who God created in his image, the man who is given all dominion.

So God created man in the image of God and this particular man who was created also created male and female people like God. To break this down, we know that Adam never had that power to create anyone so he could not have possibly been that man who was created in the image of God. Our attention is turned to the last Adam whom according to 1 Corinthians 15:45 is a creating spirit.

Therefore, the Bible was talking about Jesus in genesis, the man who is given all powers and dominion, and the man who created male and female people like God.

Further reading shows this as the writer of Hebrews tells us that Jesus is the man who was made a little lower than angels and given all glory and honor Hebrews 2:5-12. This was written as a requisite to proper understand the psalmist proclamation wherefore its written: what’s man that thou are mindful of him, or the son of man that thou hath taken account of him Psalm 144:3 and Job 7:17.

While these particular verses are usually interpreted to mean humans, they’re all talking about the person of Jesus, the man who was made in the image of God and who is given all glory and honor.

Consequently this lets us know that not all man is in the image of God. A person can either be in the image of God or the image of man. For this reason there are two images, an image of the old man which isn’t of God (image of sin) and there’s an image of the new man which is an image that’s created to be like God.

While we think all humans are in the image of God, that’s isn’t true because only a person recreated by the spirit is in the image of God. A man who doesn’t know Jesus is not in the image of God. In fact, that man has nothing similar to God. Every one of us has borne the image of the old man, therefore we should all accept Jesus so that we’re all recreated in the image of God.

Let’s all differences be said with love.

Written by David A.O.

Those created in the image of God actually are creators. They first understand the principles taught in Genesis 1, and they use those principles to create whatever it is that they create, like phones, houses, ships, planes and knowledge to transplant human organs, etc. What is unfortunate is that many then connect Genesis 1 creation to the Genesis 2 creation which took Adam and Eve and enslaved them in the Garden of Eden.

A God who created humans to “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground”, and who gave "you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it", can not then enslave you in a garden and preserve the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil from you with a lie about it killing you on the day that you eat of it!

This is a beautiful outlook. But according to the Bible, it’s being born of the spirit that makes a person like God and not their skills. Humans cannot actually create anything, humans only have skills to manipulate already created things.

It’s only a person who’s born of God and is like God that can create through their faith. So whether or not a person makes phones, houses, cars and everything you’ve mentioned, they’re not in the image of God unless they get to know Jesus and being born of the spirit.

God is a spirit and those who’re like him must be spirit through their reborn by the spirit of God.

budaatum:
Those created in the image of God actually are creators. They first understand the principles taught in Genesis 1, and they use those principles to create whatever it is that they create, like phones, houses, ships, planes and knowledge to transplant human organs, etc. What is unfortunate is that many then connect Genesis 1 creation to the Genesis 2 creation which took Adam and Eve and enslaved them in the Garden of Eden.

A God who created humans to “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground”, and who gave "you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it", can not then enslave you in a garden and preserve the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil from you with a lie about it killing you on the day that you eat of it!

DavidAO:
This is a beautiful outlook. But according to the Bible, it’s being born of the spirit that makes a person like God and not their skills. Humans cannot actually create anything, humans only have skills to manipulate already created things.

It’s only a person who’s born of God and is like God that can create through their faith. So whether or not a person makes phones, houses, cars and everything you’ve mentioned, they’re not in the image of God unless they get to know Jesus and being born of the spirit.

God is a spirit and those who’re like him must be spirit through their reborn by the spirit of God.

According to the Bible, [url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%204%3A4&version=KJV]humans should not read only one book or they will become malnourished[/url]!

When a person is "born by the spirit", which means, allowing oneself to be led by a spiritual understanding, one would acquire the ability to do greater things than Christ did, who also never created any human beings but whom you do not hesitate to call God.