Priesthood Part 2: The Beginning

MP: Human Beings were created in God’s own image to reflect Him and represent Him on the earth.

We reflect and represent in three ways:

- Through relationship with God

- Relationships with other People

- Relationship to the Earth

“As a mirror reflects, so man should reflect God.  When one looks at a human being, one ought to see in him or her a certain reflection of God.  Another way of putting this is to say that in man God is to become visible on earth.  To be sure, other creatures, and even the heavens, declare the glory of God, but only in man does God become visible….in the creation of man God revealed himself in a unique way, by making someone who was a kind of mirror image of himself.  No higher honor could have been given to man than the privilege of being an image of the God who made him.” - Anthony Hoekema, Created In God's Image