Jehovah’s first creation was his “only-begotten Son” (Joh 3:16), “the beginning of the creation by God.” (Re 3:14) This one, “the firstborn of all creation,” was used by Jehovah in creating all other things, those in the heavens and those upon the earth, “the things visible and the things invisible.” (Col 1:15-17) John’s inspired testimony concerning this Son, the Word, is that “all things came into existence through him, and apart from him not even one thing came into existence,” and the apostle identifies the Word as Jesus Christ, who had become flesh. (Joh 1:1-4, 10, 14, 17) As wisdom personified, this One is represented as saying, “Jehovah himself produced me as the beginning of his way,” and he tells of his association with God the Creator as Jehovah’s “master worker.” (Pr 8:12, 22-31) In view of the close association of Jehovah and his only-begotten Son in creative activity and because that Son is “the image of the invisible God” (Col 1:15; 2Co 4:4), it was evidently to His only-begotten Son and master worker that Jehovah spoke in saying, “Let us make man in our image.”—Ge 1:26. After creating his only-begotten Son, Jehovah used him in bringing the heavenly angels into existence. This preceded the founding of the earth, as Jehovah revealed when questioning Job and asking him: “Where did you happen to be when I founded the earth . . . when the morning stars joyfully cried out together, and all the sons of God began shouting in applause?” (Job 38:4-7) It was after the creation of these heavenly spirit creatures that the material heavens and earth and all elements were made, or brought into existence. And, since Jehovah is the one primarily responsible for all this creative work, it is ascribed to him.—Ne 9:6; Ps 136:1, 5-9. The Scriptures, in stating, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Ge 1:1), leave matters indefinite as to time. This use of the term “beginning” is therefore unassailable, regardless of the age scientists may seek to attach to the earthly globe and to the various planets and other heavenly bodies. The actual time of creation of the material heavens and earth may have been billions of years ago. Further Creative Activities Involving Earth. Genesis chapter 1 through chapter 2, verse 3, after telling about the creation of the material heavens and earth (Ge 1:1, 2), provides an outline of further creative activities on the earth. Chapter 2 of Genesis, from verse 5 onward, is a parallel account that takes up at a point in the third “day,” after dry land appeared but before land plants were created. It supplies details not furnished in the broad outline found in Genesis chapter 1. The inspired Record tells of six creative periods called “days,” and of a seventh period or “seventh day” in which time God desisted from earthly creative works and proceeded to rest. (Ge 2:1-3) While the Genesis account of creative activity relating to the earth does not set forth detailed botanical and zoological distinctions such as those current today, the terms employed therein adequately cover the major divisions of life and show that these were created and made so that they reproduce only according to their respective “kinds.”—Ge 1:11, 12, 21, 24, 25; Toward the end of the sixth day of creative activity, God brought into existence an entirely new kind of creature, superior to the animals even though lower than the angels. This was man, created in God’s image and after his likeness. While Genesis 1:27 briefly states concerning humankind “male and female he [God] created them,” the parallel account at Genesis 2:7-9 shows that Jehovah God formed man out of the dust of the ground, blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man came to be a living soul, for whom a paradise home and food were provided. In this case Jehovah used the elements of the earth in creative work and then, having formed man, He created the female of humankind using one of Adam’s ribs as a base. (Ge 2:18-25) With the creation of the woman, man was complete as a “kind.”—Ge 5:1, 2. God then blessed mankind, telling the first man and his wife: “Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it, and have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and every living creature that is moving upon the earth.” (Ge 1:28; compare Ps 8:4-8.) For humankind and other earthly creatures, God made adequate provision by giving them “all green vegetation for food.” Reporting on the results of such creative work, the inspired Record states: “After that God saw everything he had made and, look! it was very good.” (Ge 1:29-31) The sixth day having come to its successful conclusion and God having completed this creative work, “he proceeded to rest on the seventh day from all his work that he had made.”—Ge 2:1-3.

The bible was written by man..........

Because the other animals couldn't even talk, let alone write.

Because the Bible is a collection of folktales compiled by power-hungry "church leaders" who figured out that keeping gullible people ignorant would allow them to amass insane amounts of wealth and power.

If god made man therefore man was "designed" by god in the "image" god wanted. If I designed a house and built it I would hope it looked like my design woudn't I? And if I did it right it would too. God "imagined" us looking as we do - and so we look as we do because he wishes us to look this way - simple. If you look for any other meaning to this rather simple but unnecessary statement then your wasting your time - the simplest answers are usually the best ones. Have a fine day!

Because it is correct. Jesus followed up with this theme, but no one takes his teachings to heart these days. Immediately after the Crucifixion, Jesus did not say that I am God and I just died for your sins. On the contrary, he gave a message to Mary Magdalene for his apostles saying that they were his "brothers" and that the almighty was his God and their God. So he did not put himself above his apostles... because he knows that we are all children of God. This same message is in the Prodigal Son story. The son was always the son, and just simply returned home to his Father. So you just put your finger on the main theme of the Gospel that Jesus himself was preaching. The kingdom is within you... (because you are a child of God and made in God's image) This will explain the whole thing more clearly: http://gospelenigma.com by expaining the Kingdom Gospel.

Here's the Doctrine on that, Enjoy!!! John DOCTRINE OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT (See also the Doctrine of Spiritual Metabolism.) A. Definition. 1. The human spirit is the immaterial part of man designed by God to convert, to store, and to utilize spiritual phenomena. The human spirit receives spiritual information which the Holy Spirit converts into gnosis (knowledge). 2. Information may come into the left lobe of the soul of man as NOEO, meaning imagination type thinking, or PHRONEO, meaning objective thinking, or DOKEO, meaning subjective thinking. The function of the human spirit is to make the spiritual phenomena it receives understandable to the left lobe of the soul. 3. Then the Holy Spirit converts gnosis information that is believed by the believer into epignosis. Epignosis doctrine can then be processed by the various areas of the right lobe of the soul. This will not happen without positive volition toward that epignosis. The steps in this process are as follows. a. Spiritual information is taught in some manner. b. The believer must have both positive volition and concentration on what is taught. c. The Holy Spirit transfers this spiritual information to the human spirit where it becomes spiritual phenomena. d. The Holy Spirit transfers this spiritual phenomena to the left lobe of the soul where it becomes gnosis. e. Faith or belief by the believer causes Holy Spirit to convert gnosis to epignosis and transfer it to the right lobe. f. Application of epignosis produces wisdom. 4. In the original creation of man the human spirit was received along with the human soul when man received the "breath of lives," Gen 2:7. B. Trichotomy and Dichotomy. 1. Original man was created trichotomous, Gen 2:7. He had a body, soul, and spirit. 2. As a result of the Fall, both Adam and the woman became dichotomous, having body and soul. They immediately suffered spiritual death, Rom 5:12. Spiritual death includes the destruction or death of the human spirit. The human spirit was lost and they acquired an old sin nature. As a result, their progeny, the human race, are always physically born dichotomous, having no human spirit. 3. The unbeliever is born in the line of Adam with a genetically formed old sin nature passed down through the man in procreation. He receives the imputation of Adam's sin directly at physical birth. 4. 1 Cor 2:14 describes all the human race as PSUCHIKOS, meaning soulish. The verse says, "The soulish man cannot understand the things of the spirit of God; they are foolishness unto him, neither can he know them, because they are discerned by the human spirit." 5. Jude 19, "These [unbelievers] are the ones who cause divisions, soulish, not having a human spirit." 6. When anyone believes in Christ, the omnipotence of the Spirit restores the status quo of trichotomy (Adam before the fall), i.e., in regeneration, the Holy Spirit creates a human spirit for the imputation of eternal life. 7. Therefore the believer receives the human spirit at the same time he receives the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Both the human spirit and the Holy Spirit are necessary for the function of GAP (the grace apparatus for perception). 8. 1 Thes 5:23, "Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely, and may your spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." 9. The human spirit is taught in several places. a. Job 32:8, "But it is the spirit in man [believer] and the Spirit of the Almighty that gives perception." b. Phile 25, "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit." c. The human spirit of Titus is mentioned specifically in 2 Cor 7:13. "For this reason, we have been comforted, and in addition to our comfort, we have rejoiced, even much more, for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by all of you." d. Heb 4:12, "The Word of God is alive and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder between the soul and the spirit . . ." 10. The unbeliever is dichotomous; the believer is trichotomous. C. Perception occurs by the functions of the two spirits, 1 Cor 2:12-16. "Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things freely given to us by God, which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with a spiritual apparatus. But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them because they are spiritually appraised. But he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no man. For who has known the mind of Lord that he should instruct him? But we have the mind [thinking] of Christ." D. The reality of spiritual phenomena resides in the two spirits, Rom 8:16. "The Spirit teaches our spirit [human]..." The Holy Spirit is the teacher of Bible doctrine, Jn 14:26, 16:12-16; 1 Jn 2:27; 1 Cor 2:9-16. The human spirit is the target for Bible doctrine. It dispenses Bible doctrine to the right lobe of the soul. It determines what things go into the construct of the edification complex of the soul, Eph 4:20-24. E. The Storage of Bible Doctrine in the Human Spirit. 1. The human spirit is the area of refreshment, 2 Cor 7:13. 2. Bible doctrine is stored in the human spirit as the basis of all grace orientation, James 1; Phile 25. The "doer of the word" is the believer who converts gnosis into epignosis. 3. Spiritual IQ is related to doctrine stored in the human spirit, Job 32:8; Rom 8:16. 6. The human spirit is designed to store and distribute categorical doctrine, Eph 3:18-19. 7. The unbeliever has no human spirit. Therefore, God the Holy Spirit must act as a human spirit for the comprehension of the Gospel. Gen 6:3; Jn 16:8-11; 1 Cor 2:14-15.

Hope? ;-)

The Bible says many things. But there's nothing in it that could provide any genuine truth seeker with a rational and comprehensive concep of the DIVINE SPIRIT tha many believe to be a deity. Theology isn't but a conflicting and nonsensical by-pruduct of men's vain effort to pierce the mistery of the Ultimate Reality. The god that is spoken of in that book is susceptible to anger, jalousy, flattery and worship--the same pitiful attributes that of any ordinary man. Hence, the implication of the idea that: "...God created men in His own image", inevitably would be that this god, notwithstanding he is omnipotent and possess an awesome power to create (and destroy), cannot have moral character of a distinguishing quality higher above those of his own creatures. The fact that we are all messed up is a very poor indication that we were created perfect by a "perfect superbeing". For if we were, one [talking] serpent could have not corrupted any being who God created "perfect".

It means that we are created with a measure of God's qualities. Often we refer to a child as being the 'spitting image of the parent.' This can mean that the child has similar looks as the parent does, or it could mean that the child has many of the same qualities as the parent. In this case, we are talking about the way we, as the creation, mirror God, the Creator. Since God is a spirit creature, and we are physical creatures, we cannot literally look like him. But, we do possess a measure of his main qualities. The Bible says that "God is love."-1 John 4:8) The Bible also highlights God's sense of justice.(Psalms 37:28) We are created with a measure of His cardinal attributes such as love and justice. Other qualities that we possess in God's image are a measure of wisdom, kindness, along with other qualities that confirm that we are made in God's image.

Man was created in God's image. When I was a kid I thought that meant that we looked like him,...but actually humankind was created with the capacity to reflect the qualities that God possesses. Love, wisdom, power and justice are God's four principle qualities, or attributes. None of the animals have the ability to display wisdom, or a sense of justice or even an appreciation for beauty. Only man was created in the image of God, and is capable of these expressions.

Because those who wrote it wanted those who read it to love god.

Having the “image” or “likeness” of God means, in the simplest terms, that we were made to resemble God. Adam did not resemble God in the sense of God’s having flesh and blood. Scripture says that “God is a spirit” (John 4:24) and therefore exists without a body. However, Adam’s body did mirror the life of God, insofar as it was created in perfect health and was not subject to death. The image of God refers to the immaterial part of man. It sets man apart from the animal world, fits him for the “dominion” God intended (Genesis 1:28), and enables him to commune with his Maker. It is a likeness mentally, morally, and socially.

Its not so much a physical likness but more of an interpersonal one. God gave us the ability to love, get angry, make our own choices, et cetera. It is in these ways that we are made in his image.

I know, becauce the Bible is created by Human XD

Its in every book of GOD, even Quran.

"In God's image" means we have the qualities of love and compassion...We are not His image physically. He is spiritual and we are fleshly. However, the Bible does portray God as an individual, and not as a general " all round" presence. (Job 2:2) Then Jehovah said to Satan: “Just where do you come from?” At that Satan answered Jehovah and said: “From roving about in the earth and from walking about in it.” (Job 2:7) So Satan went out away from the person of Jehovah and struck Job with a malignant boil from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. ...person of Jehovah...

Here is your answer. Man was created in God's image February 8, 2009 Marie Jon, RA analyst http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/jon/090208

Because God created man in his own image. Looks like God's image.

It's a typo. Originally it was supposed to say "and man created god in his image"

It's bad translation it should be God made man in his laboratory.

tabithap5,,yes that is what it exactly means ,,that we possess Godly qualities,, love, justice ,wisdom etc

Adam was made “in God’s image.” (see Genesis 1:27) That did not mean that Adam resembled God in appearance. Jehovah God is an invisible spirit. (John 4:24) So Jehovah does not have a body of flesh and blood. Being made in God’s image meant that Adam was created with qualities like those of God, including love, wisdom, justice, and power. Adam was like his Father in another important way in that he possessed free will. So Adam was not like a machine that can perform only what it is designed or programmed to do. Instead, he could make personal decisions, choosing between right and wrong. If he had chosen to obey God, he would have lived forever in Paradise on earth.

We were created in Gods image. God is a Spirit so we were created in His spiritual image. It is clear in the old testament that there is only one God. And it is thought by many that the face of God has never been seen. Since He is a Spirit.However there is more to the story. It is also clear that God revealed himself in Genesis chapter 18 and Genesis 19:24. He is also revealed in Isaiah chapter 6:1-8. Now it is obvious the Jehovah Witnesses all play from the same script. So if you are not a Jehovah Witness read the parts of the Bible I have mentioned. The Jehovah Witness have their own little book to reference.

Genesis 1:26 NAS Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image,according to our likeness:and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds`of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over ever creeping thing that creeps on the earth." Notice Our and Us. Thats not Michael folks.

God created man to have the capacity for feelings...love, compassion, and because it is there, even hate...but then gives us a rule that hate must be controlled., ephesians 4.26...be wrathful yet do not sin. Even Jesus got angry at the moneychangers in the temple and overthrew their tables....and HE was perfect. That is the difference between us and animals...long lasting feelings... We have always had them...it disproves evolution... Because if we had come from animals via evolution, you have to ask...WHERE dis emotion come from.???? and planning???? we can plan many years into the future...animals cannot do that.