The Image, Gen. 1: 26 by Dudley Marvin Canright

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 30, 1870

The Image, Gen. 1: 26.

By Dudley Marvin Canright

“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” In what does this image of God consist? It seems to me that a very short and conclusive answer is found in the next chapter, seventh verse.

In chapter 1: 26, God simply announces his design to make man in his image. What is to be made in the image of God? It is man. Very well; in the next chapter, we have this design carried out, and there we are told how man is made, and of what he is made. “And the Lord God formed (or made) man of the dust of the ground.” Here we have the very thing made that God before mentioned, viz., man.

Of what was he made? Of the dust of the ground. He did not make a body and put man into it, but he made man of the dust of the ground. This we know was the physical man. Hence that which was made in the image of God, is the physical man.

D. M. CANRIGHT.