Saturday, March 15, 2008

Genesis 1:26

And 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 fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
  1. God declares His intention to create man (plural).
  2. Judging from the use of the pronoun, "our", God is apparently speaking to those who will assist Him in creating man. This further supports my previous suspicions that God was directing others and reviewing the quality of their work.
  3. Man will look like God.
  4. God has a specific form after which man can be patterned. Therefore, it must be assumed that God looks like or has the same features as man.
  5. God intends to give man control over the earth and all the animals.

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