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: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 1:26-27|Genesis 1:26]] (AV)

:And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and '''begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image'''; and called his name Seth: [[Genesis 5:1-5|Genesis 5:3]] (AV)

:Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven '''image''', or any '''likeness''' of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. [[Exodus 20:4]] (AV)

:''etc..''

==What do "our image" and "our likeness" Mean?==
For many people who seek to understand and describe the Bible's message, a lot hangs on the meaning of the terms in [[Genesis 1:26-27|Genesis 1:26]].

===Literal Views===
'''Evangelion writes:'''
My opinion is too long to post on the wiki!  But I'll see if I can patch in a hotlink...  [http://www.thechristadelphians.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=465
Click here.<ref>Broken link. As of July 2023 the posts were   [https://web.archive.org/web/20071030171421/http://www.thechristadelphians.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=465 here] at archive.org.</ref>  His case that [[Genesis 1:26-27|Genesis 1:26]] refers to humans' outward, visible form is found at [[MCo:The Human Body in God's Image#selem|The Human Body in God's Image]]

===Non-Literal Views===
In ''A Drama of Creation'', Bro [[Alan Fowler]] argues that to describe man as "in the image of God" is not intended to be taken literally.  A brief summary of his reasons is at [[It's not the Body that's in God's Image]]  See also [[Review: A Drama of Creation]]

===Discussion===
Click "Discuss this page" here or in [[The Human Body in God's Image]] or [[It's not the Body that's in God's Image]], or edit any of these pages directly.

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