Genesis 1: 27 NIV
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Perhaps the most interesting statement in the entire Old Testament is this one, that man was created in God’s image. What precisely does this mean? There are two sides to this issue. What is it about man that makes him in God’s image? On the other hand, what is it about God that makes man be in His image? The two sides are equally mysterious and equally important. Put another way, what is it we learn about God from man and what is it we learn about man from God? Exploration is one of the most fascinating of endeavors. Why are we so enamored with getting to Mars? For that matter, why did we care about getting to the moon and before that, why did we think there was anything of importance about the Galapagos Islands or the tip of Africa or Manhattan? Why do we want to look into the nucleus and the DNA molecule? We want to know and see and understand and at some level, be there. However, the two most distant shores are the ones we think we have explored ad nausea and yet both are more unknown to us than the farthest star.
The greatest of frontiers are set here in our central verse. Who is God and who is man? We have two sciences dedicated to the later; psychology and sociology and yet neither has been able to answer even the simplest questions about man. For example, why do we use a cell phone to send a text message and a computer to make a phone call? Why do we use a remote control after spending an hour working out? Why do we eat out when we are inside and eat up when the food goes down? We haven’t got answers to these questions. Nor do we understand ourselves. Why do we marry, build cities, make phone calls and work so hard? Who really is God? What is He like and what matters most to Him?
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