of the creation account is the only approach by which we are likely to understand the nature of man as “image.”10 Consequently, the method of this discussion will be to examine the creation account in order to discern predications of God paralleled by similar predications about man. The position of this study is that in his “image” man reflects God both in his person and in his work.11 As the first Adam bore the “image of the earthly,” so the last Adam bears the “image of the heavenly” (1 Cor 15:49).
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