What does it mean that we are made in God's image?
Then God said, “Let us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness.” Genesis 1:26 There are misconceptions about what it means to be made in God’s image. Some believe it to mean we as humans are “gods”, or can become “gods”. That is a gross error. Humans can and will never be gods. Not in this life, nor in the life to come. Even in mythology gods are immortal which human beings are not; we do eventually die. So, what does it mean to be made in God’s image and likeness? How is man like God? The word image in Hebrew is tseh’-lem which means a phantom, resemblance, representative figure. The word likeness in the Hebrew is de-mooth which means model, shape, fashion, similitude. Scripture tells us that God the Father is a Spirit (John 4:24). That is one way we are in God’s image because we are spirits as well within a physical body. Other ways we are image bearers is that we have will, emotions, we can make choic...