Genesis 1:26 (ESV)
Then 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 birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
The Hebrew word for “image” carries the meaning of a shadow or illusion of the real thing. See the Strong’s definition below. This is similar to the tabernacle being a shadow of a heavenly reality. Likeness is having the form of something even without its essence.
Man is made in the image of God, but only becomes His image with the life found in the body of Christ.
h6754. צֶלֶם ṣelem; from an unused root meaning to shade; a phantom, i.e. (figuratively) illusion, resemblance; hence, a representative figure, especially an idol: — image, vain shew. (Olive Tree Enhanced Strong’s Dictionary)
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