of God as a verb and you’re on the right track to understanding the idea. We were created to image God, to be his imagers—to represent him. What does it mean to image God? Genesis 1:27–28 gives us the answer: So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over
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