To what extent are humans made in image of God?

Question

And why is HE a male?

Answer 1

Actually I think we are made in the Image and Likeness of God to a much greater extent than realized.
You say God is Male,
But the Word of God says:


"Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."

So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them. "
Genesis 1:26-27

In the next chapter the process of creation is described.
You will note that when God first made Adam, the substance of Eve was contained within Him. Then He formed Eve out of Adam's substance, and out of One there were Two. He then sanctified the Union of the Two and said the Two shall become One (flesh).
I see in this the best possible representation of the Trinity in Scripture; the Father corresponding to Adam, and the Son derived from the substance of the Father; and the Union (spiritual, not sexual) of the Father and the Son constituting a Third - the Holy Spirit of God.

If you can receive it, receive it!

Answer 2

Well, an image of something means that it's a copy of its characteristics, but in a different form. For example, an image of a computer disk is its image with all the characteristics and details and data, but it's the disk itself! However, when a virus comes and corrupts even a small part of it, the whole image is corrupted! We're made in God's image, which means that we resemble him with our character, the ability to love and forgive, the natural feelings we have towards someone, compassion, mercy... However, since we're NOT perfect, that image is now corrupted, but you can still see a bit of God's image in each one of us.
About the HE, it's universally HE because we can't use anything else:
SHE would be not appropriate, as God says in the Bible that the woman has a head, which is the husband (the man) (just as the man has a head too, Jesus, and Jesus has God as a head), and God cannot be she because it would be, in this case, demeaning to His name to say that he has a head. Moreover, in the book of Revelation it also talks about the woman of God: the woman of a she? you see that that could not be. That, though, doesn't mean that God is a man, but he's only entitled as a He. Jesus himself called him FATHER.
IT would be totally inappropriate, because IT in English is for non-living things, unless in some cases you're talking about pets.
HE is more appropriate. However, God doesn't diminish all these: in the book of Psalms , in some verses, King David likened his love to the love of a mother towards his own children: SHE. God's active force, the Holy Spirit, it's considered as IT, and when it's considered as HE it means that you're talking about the whole, the Spirit and God.

Just remember that he isn't flesh and bones!!! The Bible says that no flesh and blood can enter heaven, (If not jesus would've entered the heavens with his mortal body, which is not true, as we know)

Answer 3

God IS CREATION...

We are an image that is infathomable by our own thoughts... but these exacts "images" that portray creativity .. IS the image of God.

When we know what we see and why we see it, is the images that one sees how the image of God works...

To understand this better, take the made in "likeness" aspect of God..
We are in "likeness" because we too can create.

All things that have the breath of life in it are OF God....creation. What WE as humans create is an image, a process of how God works. ANything that you have created, is a "process" that in which an "image" can't be seen, but presented in a "processed" way. We have steps 1 through whatever.. to determine creating things... but what can we really imagine in our heads this process to be.. and more so, what would it look like?

The image that can't be seen but "created" IS God.. in us.
I have tried so hard to show the creation aspect of God.. I am a choreographer and professional dancer by trade..and my site that I have up portrays better what I am trying to say, with "in the beginning" scriptures (which also show the "creation" aspect).
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/oceanremix
or
http://geocities.com/oceanremix/linesoftruth.html

Answer 4

The Primordial beings in the Primordial Spiritual creation are the actual images of God. The human spirits in the world of gross matter are created after the images these primordial spirit beings.

God is perfect, Within Him is the positive and the negative in a perfect form which is incomprehensible to man.

Answer 5

God is not a male. The word "He" is used in translations from Hebrew and Arabic because certain words used to describe God's dominance do not exist in English and other languages. English has roughly 500,000 words while Arabic has 5,000,000 words! A lot is lost in translation. The Qur'an in it's original Arabic never refers to God as male or female.

Humans are in the image of God on several levels... However God is a spirit, so some things are a symbolic likeness. He has 2 eyes, we have 2 eyes... God has a face, we have a face. God has hands, we have hands. God has feet, we have feet. But with these, we don't really know what God's eyes, face, hands, feet, etc look like. Also, we have the qualities of God: compassion, kindness, mercy, generosity, creativeness, etc. However, we can not anthropomorphise God. We are "like" God, but God is not like us. God created us, we are God's creation. It goes deep.

Answer 6

All humans are made in the image of God, there ia no extent to it. Jesus was sinless. We are sinners until we ask forgiveness for our sins.

In the Bible He can mean both male and woman.

Answer 7

In the image of God?..
in the form of His Holiness

Answer 8

God is Spirit - neither male nor female. Although He has qualities of both. Adam did too before God separated Eve from him.

Answer 9

God is three persons with one purpose -- God the Father, the son and the Holy GHost.. but if you are pertaining to Heavenly Father? He is male with flesh and bones just like us only his body is in immortal state while ours is subject to death and pain.

Answer 10

If He is a "He' is it not reasonable to believe that God is male.
In Hinduism God can be anything; male. female, animal, or plant.