God created the heavens and earth,with every created beings . God, then created Man to look after and
rule over His created being on earth in His behalf. So, God created Man in His
own image. He gave His 'Spirit and life’. That
was why, God fully entrusted man to rule over His created beings on eath. Let
us read the book of Genesis chapter one from verse 26 :-
Then God said, “Let us make
mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may
rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the
livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along
the ground.”
So God created mankind in his
own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he
created them. God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase
in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in
the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on
the ground. ”
Then God said, “I give you every
seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit
with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the
earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the
ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green
plant for food. ” And it was so. God saw all that he had made, and it
was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning —the
sixth day. (Genesis 1:1-31)
Here,
in verse 26, we find God saying “Let us make mankind in our
image, in our likeness”. God did not say ”Let me make”, He rather said
“Let us”. Again, “in our image, in our likeness”. We find here plural words
‘us’ and ‘our’. But we also find that God is speaking to His ‘self-beings’ by
using singular words ‘image’ not ‘images’, ‘likeness’ not ‘likenesses’. This
means, God is one and He was speaking to Himself and His-self being ‘Jesus
Christ’. So, as per Apostle John, Jesus Christ was - with God, in God, was
God’s-self, God Himself; having no separate identity, but fully in God with one
identity, since the beginning of creation. Jesus shares the same image with
God. Let us read John chapter one from verse one again, where the Apostle John
refers to ‘Jesus Christ’ as ‘Word’,
The Apostle
John says, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the
beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made
that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.” (John 1:1-4)
