In His Image

I was debating Genesis in my hours off today. It was an interesting conversation and definitely made it feel more like a Sunday since I didn't make it to church this morning. One of the things that was debated was the idea of being made in the image of God. We were discussing the idea of Adam and Eve and the perfection that they were made in. My opinion was put against the opposing one that Adam and Eve were the most like God. I disagree.

To be in the image of something does make it the same as what it is in the image of. Photographs are proof of that, as well as self portraits. To be in the image of something does not indeed make it the same. For me, it is only when you have the same knowledge that you can really become a true reflection of something else. It's like looking at a portrait of someone and thinking that it is a poor reflection of what the person looks like. When you create something in an image, it never comes close to what the original is like. When Adam and Eve ate from the tree of knowledge, that is when they became more like God. They knew more than they had before. They were less in the state of grace they had been before, but they also had no need for grace before that.

I have no idea if what I'm writing makes any sense at all, but it makes sense to me. Prior to knowing, Adam and Eve were simply a poor reflection of the glory of God. They had no idea of the grace and the great power of God before that happened. They couldn't know because they had no reason to know. When they gained knowledge, they weren't as close to God as they had been, but they knew that they weren't and were able to have the desire to become closer to their Creator. They became more fully aware of who they were and how they were made. They knew what life was like and knew where they were supposed to be.

When we are created in His image, we are aware that that is something unique to each one of us. Our colour doesn't matter because God is the colour of water, taking the colour of whatever He is set upon. Our features don't matter as much because each one is the fingerprint of God. Everything is unique and yet the same. Whether we are aware of it or not, we were created with a blueprint. There was something we were based on and something that we are called to. We are called back to where we came from and we can't forget that. We can't ignore the reality that we have come from the place we shall eventually return to. We were made of dust, but were given something so much more than that. That is the image that we were made in and the image we shall only get to see when we return to the dust we were created from.