1. Imago Dei (Latin) Genesis 1:26-31
The Image of God
Imago Dei (Latin)
Genesis 1:26-31

2. The fact that man is in the image of God means that man is like God and represents God
Wayne Grudem

3. "The whole concept of the imago dei, as it is expressed in Latin, the "image of God" is the idea that all men have something within them that God injected ... this gives him worth. There are no gradations in the image of God, Every man from a treble white to a bass black is significant on God's keyboard. ... One day we will learn that. We will know one day that God made us to live together as brothers and to respect the dignity and worth of every man."
MLK

4. "“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal
"“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.”
C.S.Lewis

5. Creation of man & the Imago Dei

6. What is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor. You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet:
all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild, The birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.
Psalm 8:4 - 8

7. THe Distorted Imago Dei “The Fall”

8. "And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting
"And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each human being, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of another human being. “Whoever sheds human blood, by humans shall their blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made mankind.
Gen 9:5-6

9. Restoration of the Imago Dei

10. The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
Colossians 1:15