698. God created man in His own image.

2 Cor 4:4, Col 1:15, Col 3:10, Ps 82:6, 1 Cor 11:7, Ps 82:6, Acts 17:28-29, Lk 3:38

God created man in His own image. (Genesis 1:26-27)

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. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

The true image of God is Christ. So we are made by Christ.(2 Corinthians 4:4, Colossians 1:15)

2 Corinthians 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

Colossians 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:

God, who made us in His image, is our Father. (Luke 3:38, Psalm 82:6, Acts 17:28-29)

Luke 3:38 Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.

Psalm 82:6 I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.

Acts 17:28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. 29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.

If we believe in Jesus as the Christ, the image of God we have is restored. (Col 3:10)

Col 3:10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: