Four passages of the Genesis where it is question of the formation of the man in image and likeness of God are the following ones :
. "Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being" (2, 7).
. "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 air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth." So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them" (1, 26-27).
. "This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created. When Adam had lived a hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth [...] and he died" (5, 1-5).
. "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for God made man in his own image" (9, 6).
Man was made in God’ image and he is and will always be in God’s image.
Because of the sin of disobedience (Romans 5, 19) (man prefers himself to God), he is deprived of the Glory of God or of the resemblance.
Jesus Christ, the Only Son of God, is the perfect image of the invisible God (Colossians 1,15).
By being made man, He restores man and woman in the resemblance with the Father.
He restores them in the glory, the Spirit which gives the Life.
Adam
(Museum of Cluny)
Paris
13th cent.
