Created in the image of God, humanity is endowed with inherent dignity and worth. According to Genesis, God formed man in His own likeness, male and female, to have dominion over the earth. As seen in Job and Isaiah, humans are also accountable to God, with their lives having purpose and meaning as His created beings. In Hebrews, it is written that God crowned man with glory and honor, highlighting the special status afforded to humanity. This unique relationship with God is a recurring theme throughout Scripture.
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Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”
So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
everyone called by My name and created for My glory, whom I have indeed formed and made.”
You made him ruler of the works of Your hands; You have placed everything under his feet: all sheep and oxen, and even the beasts of the field, the birds of the air and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.
Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.