and apes with bodies similar to ours and with eyes, nose, and mouth arranged much as they are on a human face. The striking difference about man created in verse 26 is not so much physical as spiritual. Unlike the beasts, man was made with a view toward the day when “we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord” (2 Cor. 3:18). As to man’s physical form, if it were truly the same as God’s
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