1. God created humans in His image to resemble Him in character, plurality, purpose, and relationships. Both men and women reflect God. 2. Humans were created to represent God by multiplying, filling the earth, caring for creation, and having dominion as God's representatives. 3. Being made in God's image means humans are exalted over nature, designed for God's glory and joy, and blessed with what they need to fulfill their purpose of representing the Creator.

1. “And God Said -
Let Us Make Man...”
Who is God?
What Does the Creation of Man Teach about God?
How Do Women Fit into His Creation?
If We are His Image – What Does that Mean?
How Does God Want Us to Live?

3. “Hey, Brother! Do You Think There is Life
after Birth? Do You Believe in Mom?”
“Nah – I Don’t Believe in Mom…
I Mean, C’mon - Have You Ever Seen Mom?”

4. Genesis 1:26-31 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.”
[27] So God created man in His own image,
in the image of God He created him;
male and female He created them.
[28] And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be
fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and
have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds
of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on
the earth.”

5. [29] And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant
yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every
tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.
[30] And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of
the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth,
everything that has the breath of life, I have given every
green plant for food.” And it was so. [31] And God saw
everything that He had made, and behold, it was very
good. And there was evening and there was morning, the
sixth day.

6. 1. Created to Resemble God: v. 26-27
− His Character and Nature
−His Plurality of Person

7. Created to Resemble God: v. 26-27
Created in His Image Means…
•Man Relates to God
•Man Shares God’s Nature
•Man is Unique from Creation
•Man Relates to the World Unlike Animals
•Man is Conscious of God
•Man is a Person Just as God is a Person
•Man uses Speech as God Uses Speech
•Man Resembles God in His Purpose
•Man and Woman Both Resemble God

8. How Does God’s Image in Man
Influence …
Morality?
Treatment of Women?
Treatment of the Unborn, Children
and the Elderly?
View of Family?

9. 1. Created to Resemble God: v. 26-27
− His Character and Nature
−His Plurality of Person
2. Created to Represent God: v. 28-31
− To Increase the Image of God
“Be fruitful and multiply”
Creating New Life Represented God’s
Nature of Creator
to the Creation

10. Genesis 2:7-9 Then the LORD God formed
the man of dust from the ground and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life,
and the man became a living creature. And
the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in
the east, and there he put the man whom
he had formed. And out of the ground the
LORD God made to spring up every tree
that is pleasant to the sight and good for
food. The tree of life was in the midst of
the garden, and the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil.

11. Genesis 2:18 Then the LORD God said, “It
is not good that the man should be alone; I
will make him a helper fit for him.”
Genesis 2:20-25 The man gave names to all
livestock and to the birds of the heavens
and to every beast of the field. But for
Adam there was not found a helper fit for
him. So the LORD God caused a deep sleep
to fall upon the man, and while he slept
took one of his ribs and closed up its place
with flesh. And the rib that the LORD God
had taken from the man he made into a
woman and brought her to the man.

12. Then the man said,
“This at last is bone of my bones and
flesh of my flesh; she shall be called
Woman, because she was taken
out of Man.”
Therefore a man shall leave his father and
his mother and hold fast to his wife, and
they shall become one flesh. And the man
and his wife were both naked and were
not ashamed.

13. Created to Represent God: v. 28-31
How does the idea increasing God’s
image speak to…
Marriage?
Children?
Family?
Relationships?
Is Procreation an Ethical Action?
What are other ways to represent God?

14. 1. Created to Resemble God: v. 26-27
− His Character and Nature
−His Plurality of Person
2. Created to Represent God: v. 28-31
− To Increase the Image of God
− To Husband the Creation
“…and fill the earth and subdue it, and
have dominion…”
Caring for the Creation Represented God’s
Own Nature of a Husband and Caretaker
to the Creation

15. Genesis 2:5, 15, 19-20 When no bush of the field was yet
in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung
up—for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the
land, and there was no man to work the ground, The
LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of
Eden to work it and keep it. Now out of the ground the
LORD God had formed every beast of the field and every
bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see
what he would call them. And whatever the man called
every living creature, that was its name. The man gave
names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and
to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not
found a helper fit for him.

16. Created to Represent God: v. 28-31
To Husband the Creation
Care for it
Tend it
Work it
Subdue it
Name it
Have Dominion over it
To take the raw materials of creation and
bring it to its intended fulfillment. To
make it reach its intended design

17. Created to Represent God: v. 28-31
How does our mission of subduing, caring,
tending, naming, and reigning in the
creation influence our…
Understanding of Biology and Science?
Work?
Treatment of the environment?
Our view of the earth’s purpose?
God’s perspective of us in His creation?

18. Psalm 139:13 For you
formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in
my mother's womb. [14] I
praise you, for I am fearfully
and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
[15] My frame was not
hidden from you, when I
was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the
depths of the earth.

19. We Were Created For God’s
Glory, Radiance and Honor
Isa 43:7 NIV everyone who
is called by my name, whom
I created for my glory,
whom I formed and made."
1 Cor 10:31 NIV So whether
you eat or drink or whatever
you do, do it all for the glory
of God.

20. We Were Created for Joy –
Our Joy and God’s Joy
Psalm 73:25-26 NIV Whom
have I in heaven but you?
And earth has nothing I
desire besides you. {26} My
flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my
heart and my portion forever.

21. We Were Created for Joy –
Our Joy and God’s Joy
Psalm 84:1-2, 10 NIV How
lovely is your dwelling place,
O LORD Almighty! {2} My
soul yearns, even faints, for
the courts of the LORD; my
heart and my flesh cry out for
the living God. Better is one
day in your courts than a
thousand elsewhere; I would
rather be a doorkeeper in the
house of my God than dwell
in the tents of the wicked.

22. What Does it Mean to Be Made in God’s
Image?
Unlike the Animal Kingdom…
Image Means – We are Designed to
Resemble and Represent God
Image Means – We are Exalted in Creation
to Resemble and Represent God
Image Means – We are Blessed by God to
Resemble and Represent God

23. What Does it Mean to Be Made in God’s
Image?
Unlike the Animal Kingdom…
Image Means – We are Designed to
Resemble and Represent God
We Aren’t Just Monkeys – we are a unique
work of God. We are incredible beings.
We have a High purpose and calling. We
are Reflections of the Most High God

24. What Does it Mean to Be Made in God’s
Image?
Unlike the Animal Kingdom…
Image Means – We are Exalted in Creation
to Resemble and Represent God
We aren’t left as orphans. We were made
prominent in the creation. We are the
apex of the natural world. We are not a
product of nature, but have dominion over
nature. We are stewards and husbands

25. What Does it Mean to Be Made in God’s
Image?
Unlike the Animal Kingdom…
Image Means – We are Blessed by God to
Resemble and Represent God
We are given the blessing of God. He has
provided what we need. He has given us
His approval and empowered us to do the
tasks. (Women were created to be the
help-mate for men.)

26. We Were Created to Clearly Resemble and
Represent the Creator God
Job 10:11 You clothed me with skin and flesh,
and knit me together with bones and sinews.
I have a purpose – because I am…
Made in His image
Accepted by Him in spite of my sin
Given new life through Christ
Eternally united with Him