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Originally Posted by rrford
Uhm, I am not quite persuaded that the "image" refers to the angels.
Here is the condensed version as I do not have time to dig out the full version.
I believe the first form of man that God saw was the person of Jesus Christ who was "the firstborn of all creation" and "the express image of God's invisible person."
That being said, God created Adam to look like what Christ would one day look like. Therfore, "Let us make man in our image" is saying "Let us form man in the image that the physical body of Christ will one day have."
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rrford,
I believe you are absolutely correct! I began teaching this some years ago. Everything that God created up to this point was made by his spoken word. In
John 1 we find that the "Word" or logos became flesh and dwelt among us. While I have written quite a bit on this matter suffice it to say that I believe this "let us make man in our image and after our likeness" is simply God stating "let me and my word create man in our image and after our likeness." So God created man in his own image....the image of the Word that was to be made flesh.
I'll write a little more later.