God created man in God’s image to function holistically as a complex material-immaterial unity. This raises the question of the body: what is the relationship between the imago Dei and the physical body of man? Is man’s body in any way the image of God or at least some aspect of it? Earlier when discussing the meaning of צֶלֶם I claimed that since God has no physical form (Deut 4:15–18) after which he might pattern man, the imago Dei must communicate something of the immaterial