4 Verse-by-Verse Answers for Mormons: Old Testament Genesis Genesis 1:26, 27 And God said, Let us make man in our image.… So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. The Mormon Church uses these verses to support two of its distinctive teachings: (1) that God has a body resembling our own, and (2) that the Trinity actually consists of three separate and distinct Gods who are one only in purpose. To derive the first idea, the “image of