Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness.” (Genesis 1:26, NIV 1984).
My Musings – Humans are distinguished from the rest of the God’s “creatures.” We have self-awareness (conscious knowledge of one’s own character, feelings, motives, and desires). We have imagination (the ability to form ideas, images or concepts that are not observable by our senses). We have a conscience (an inner prompting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one’s behavior). We have an independent will (the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with those choices and decisions). We have principles (fundamental truths or propositions that serve as the foundation for a system of belief or behavior). To name just a few. This is, in part, what it means to be made in God’s image (not to mention the fact that we are more than just…
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