SALVATION GOSPEL TABERNACLE WORLDWIDE

All humans are made in the image of God.” We hear this phrase often, usually indicating that human life is valuable. But what does the phrase “image of God” actually mean? What Is the Image? We find the phrase “image of God” in the first chapter of the Bible. When God first created humans, He made them in His “image” (צֶלֶם, ztelem ) and after His “likeness” (דְּמוּת, demoot ). These words describe how humans in some way reflect the form and function of God. In order to understand the specific meaning, it will help to look at their context in Genesis 1:26-28: Then 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 birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image , in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitfu...