Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky, and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. (Gen. 1:26, 27) As the image-bearer of God, man was created with true free will and was not mechanistically determined by internal or external factors,