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1693·The Common Faith
Question 13 of 114
What Man Ought to Believe Concerning God

How did God create man?

Answer

God created man, male and female, after his own image, in knowledge, righteousness, and holiness, with dominion over the creatures (; ; ).

Read the 3 proof texts (KJV)
Genesis 1:26-28
26And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Colossians 3:10
And have put on the new [man], which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
Ephesians 4:24
And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.