Genesis 1:26-31
26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
29 And God said, “See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. 30 Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food”; and it was so. 31 Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
After God created the foundation for His prized accomplishment, that is, the heavens and earth with the land and seas and plants and living things, then the stage was set. He created man in His own image! We are made reflect our Maker, our God, because He designed us to be this way, something no other animal or other part of created life was made to be. We are no mere animal, and are of higher value than anything else He spoke into being, for we alone reflect the one who fashioned us. Man was commanded to be fruitful and reproduce to fill the earth made for us, and to rule over all created for us. He gave us food and gave all other living things food as well. What a marvelous design we lightly call an ecosystem! It was made this way because God said it was to be so, and this is very good in His eyes when He made man on the foundation of the world for His glory. The sixth day came to a glorious close.
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