What is the "Image of God?"?

We are made in the image of God means that we are able to tell right from wrong. We have a free will to love God or refuse Him. : )

Years ago, that would have been my question about God. But when you become a 'child' of God, it takes on a whole new persona. God created the Heavens and the Earth. God created all species of animal, fowl, etc, but God needed a 'Herder' to keep things under control. Only thing was, Eve talked Adam into believing God wasn't God. For that reason, we are all sinners, and as they had children, that sin automatically passes on, whether you are a Good person, or Bad! God created man in His "physical" image. Oh, by the way, if we came from that little creature in the Ocean, why haven't the Primates kept up with us? Given the choice between believing that God created us in His image or be a relative of a monkey........well, I take a bath everyday and enjoy what " That Guy " created for me to enjoy, just look around........primates didn't do all this. God Bless !!

Clearly, we are not created in the physical image of God, because God is incorporeal and has no physical appearance. The Hebrew words translated as "image" and "likeness" in Gen. 1:27 do not refer to the physical form of a thing. The word for "image" in Gen. 1:27 is "tzelem," which refers to the nature or essence of a thing, as in Psalm 73:20, "you will despise their image (tzel'mam)." You despise a person's nature and not a person's physical appearance. The word for physical form is "to'ar," as in Gen. 39:6, "and Joseph was beautiful of form (to'ar) and fair to look upon." Therefore...to be made in the image of God means that we have the nature of God

Great question!

Some equally great articles just happen to be available online that answer it, too!:

Humans--Just Higher Animals? :

-Who Are We?

- In the Image of God or Beast?

- Looking Up --Not Down-- for Answers

http://www.watchtower.org/e/19980622/article_01.ht...

Ethical Decisions:

- A Trait Distinctively Human ...

http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2004/12/1/arti...

Right and Wrong How Should You Decide?

http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2004/12/1/arti...

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No on the first two, closer on the third count. Obviously, we don't have super-human qualities, and God does not have a body. In the Bible, God is talked about in terms of emotions he has, laughing, grieved "He was grieved that he had made man upon the earth", pleased, loving, hating, zealous, with creative instincts, senses of mercy, senses of justice, having logical thought, knowing Fatherhood. In all these and other senses, God is a PERSON, but not a MAN, which is his creation who has a mind based on God's. We are also the dominant species on the earth, as he is dominant over the Universe. The bottom line is Adam was created as God's son, giving him immense worth, and we are all sons and daughters of Adam.

Man is a spirit, with a soul that lives in a body. This body is limited by time and space. Therefore, man is comprised of three parts; spirit, soul and body.

God is, and he is spirit and Word all in one. God is comprised of the Father, Son & Holy Spirit, aka the Trinity.

Man has 3 parts to his make up; God is considered to have 3 parts yet both are seen as singular. One mankind or man, one God or Creator.

Man created in the image of God relates to the comparatives not the actual for the things of God are spiritually discerned.

Therefore:

God Man

1.) Father - Body = shell, a place holder; with God it is the helm or power that holds the universe together, with Man it is the covering while man is limited to this existence/continuum of time and space. It is an act of grace and mercy that man has been given the shell he must live in for the season of his existence here on earth.

2.) Son - Soul = sinful part of man that needs to be saved from itself, is the receiver of the breath of life and has a conscience.

3.) Holy Spirit - Spirit of Man = immortal, was in the beginning and will be at the end of the world, harbors a seed of the essence of God himself that needs to be quickened in order to achieve any level of temporal or eternal "enlightenment". Must come into the fullness of the Truth or will parish - cease to exist/burn in an eternal consuming fire referred to as Hell - in the end.

In Genesis 1 God says let us create man in our image...In Genesis 2 God created man from the dust and breathed into him a spirit and the two became a living soul....Man was created like God who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit...Man was made body and spirit and the two were one soul....This was differen't than the animals and in the image of God.

The Image of God is soul.soul knows & can do many things, we in our limited consciousness do not realize yet.that we or capible of.we see the image of God within us all, if we will but look, and ask of the spirit and listen and do Gods will.

Yes .we do have many qualities we do not harness or use. i am very psychic myself

I have seen the future many many times accurately and so did my dear mother

I can do all things thru the spirit which guides me

My mother would say i can do all things thru Christs spirit

Its the same difference

God’s firstborn Son, who later became the man Jesus, is in his Father’s image. (2Co 4:4) Inasmuch as that Son was obviously the one to whom God spoke in saying, “Let us make man in our image,” this likeness of the Son to his Father, the Creator, existed from when the Son was created. (Ge 1:26; Joh 1:1-3; Col 1:15, 16) When on earth as a perfect man, he reflected his Father’s qualities and personality to the fullest extent possible within human limitations, so he could say that “he that has seen me has seen the Father also.” (Joh 14:9; 5:17, 19, 30, 36; 8:28, 38, 42) This likeness, however, was certainly heightened at the time of Jesus’ resurrection to spirit life and his being granted “all authority . . . in heaven and on the earth” by his Father, Jehovah God. (1Pe 3:18; Mt 28:18) Since God then exalted Jesus to “a superior position,” God’s Son now reflected his Father’s glory to an even greater degree than he had before leaving the heavens to come to earth. (Php 2:9; Heb 2:9) He is now “the exact representation of [God’s] very being.”—Heb 1:2-4.

God's Son, no part of a trinity!

All anointed members of the Christian congregation are foreordained by God to be “patterned after the image of his Son.” (Ro 8:29) Christ Jesus is their model not only in their life pattern, as they follow in his footsteps and imitate his course and ways, but also in their death and resurrection. (1Pe 2:21-24; 1Co 11:1; Ro 6:5) Having borne the earthly “image of the one made of dust [Adam],” as spirit creatures they thereafter bear “the image of the heavenly one [the last Adam, Christ Jesus].” (1Co 15:45, 49) During their earthly life, they are privileged to “reflect like mirrors the glory of Jehovah” that shines to them from God’s Son, being progressively transformed into the image conveyed by that glory-reflecting Son. (2Co 3:18; 4:6) God thereby creates in them a new personality, one that is a reflection, or image, of his own divine qualities.—Eph 4:24; Col 3:10.

Righteousness is the image of God, and we should be righteous in every single way,we must be perfect for God is perfect, it is not true when some says nobody is perfect and no one will ever be,coz God will not command us anything that is impossible !God knows we can be perfect, and He will be there to help us to attain perfection!