1. The Image of God

2. Special knowledge –put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. Col 3:10 (NIV) Holiness and an absence of evil put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness Eph 4:24 (NIV) –1 John 3:2 (NIV)

3. The effect of being created in the “Image of God”. With their intellect –They perfectly understood what God wanted them to know

4. The effect of being created in the “Image of God”. With their emotions –They were in tune with God’s and found their greatest happiness in God.

5. The effect of being created in the “Image of God”. With their will – –Their will was in complete harmony with God’s. Every impulse and desire was in harmony with God’s –They were like “human replicas” of what God is like.

6. After the Fall Minds Emotions Will Ignorant of God’s good plan for them Find joy in things that displease God In rebellion against God

7. Restoration We are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 (NIV) In eternal life, the image of God will be completely restored.