The creative calling is present from the very beginning of time. In words that echo through the ages, God intones, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” Then Moses reports, “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them” (Gen 1:26-27). Humans are thus made “in the image of God.”
Untold amounts of ink have been spilled over this concept of the imago Dei. Customarily when we think of what it means to be made in God’s likeness, what comes to mind are features like our human capacity for reasoning, perhaps, or memory or language—all of which are true and essential to our image-of-God-ness. But there’s still more.
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