Part One: Every Human Made in the Image and Likeness of God

1. The Creator decides what the created is and what the created must do.

Isaiah 29:16b

Romans 9:21

Genesis 1:26–27

Matthew 19:4–5

2. Humans are distinct from everything else that God made, because they are made in His image.

Genesis 1:28

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3. All humans are still created in the image of God.

Genesis 2:25

Genesis 6:5 

Genesis 8:20–21

Genesis 9:5–6 

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4. Sin makes it harder to see how we are made in God’s image.

James 3:8–9

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Proverbs 22:2, 14:31, 17:5

5. Those made in God’s image must be conformed to it.

Colossians 1:15

2 Corinthians 3:18

Romans 8:29

Colossians 3:9–10

Ephesians 5:1–2 

Philippians 2:6b–8

James 3:9–10