God finished His creation work with His MASTERPIECE – MAN! We have been looking at the schematics relating to our design and function in the past few Blogs. God, as the Creator, did not leave us in the dark regarding His assessment of us.

Genesis 1:31

³¹ Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good.

1) Adam’s creation was a direct result of God’s deliberate and creative will;

2) Adam was created by a Being who was already in existence, and

3) After his creation, he was declared “very good.”

In what way was Adam like God? To answer this question, we have to ask: “What was God like?” God appears on the scene as a Being acting independently while creating the universe and man, and He tells us nothing about His origin.

Who created God is an age-old question. He never “became” He always “was.” Yet Scripture gives to us of faith a simple answer: Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God.” In Exodus 3:14, God told Moses to tell the Israelites that “I AM has sent me to you.”

God had no beginning, and He has no end. 

Psalm 90:1-2

Lord, you have been our dwelling-place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God. 

So what is God?

God is Eternal, the Ever-Existing One. The Beginning of all beginnings. God doesn’t explain Himself in the Bible, but He does reveal Himself. Through revelation, He wants us to know who He is and what He is. Without this understanding, we would never know His intention for creating us in His image.

Let’s see if Genesis sheds any light on what kind of resemblance Adam bore to God.

“God created…”  “God said…”  “God saw…”  “God divided…”  “God called…”  “God made…”  “God set…”  “God blessed…”

These expressions reveal something God did. What one does reveals what one is.

“God created” – God must have willed; “God said” – God must have thought; “God blessed” – God must have loved.

God is a Person. God is a Person who loves, thinks, and wills. Genesis 1:1-25 shows us personality.

Genesis 1:26-27 states that man was created in God’s image.

²⁶ Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, 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.

The Hebrew word for “image” can also be translated as “a shadow.” Man was God’s shadow. In what way was He like God? Adam was made in the image of God in the sense of having a personality that was patterned after God, who had the power to love, think, and will.

God was the Creator, Adam was the created. God was the Sovereign, Adam was the subordinate.

“God and God’s first man Adam were not in the same order of beings nor did they live on the same plane of life.

God is uncreated, man is created. God is infinite, man is finite. God is heavenly, man is earthy. God is divine, man is human. Between what God is in His uncreated, essential, divine being and what man is in his created, finite, human being there is an absolutely impassable gulf, an immeasurable distance. God is not superman, man is not inferior God.”       

“Life on the Highest Plane” by Ruth Paxson

Gracious God, thank You for Your plan in creating us like Yourself. You are a Person, and You patterned us after Yourself with the capacity to love, think, and will.

In Him,

Marion