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THE IMAGE OF GOD Notice Genesis 5:3: "And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:" Adam was the only man in the Old Testament to have the image of God, and he had it only for a short time. It isn't until Jesus Christ comes and pays for the sin of the world that we read again about a man having God's image. Colossians 3:10 says, "And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:" Notice Hebrews 1:3: "Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;" Jesus Christ is the image of God, and no one can be born in God's image until they are BORN AGAIN (John 3:3). Then, and only then, can a person have God's image. "And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly." (I Cor. 15:49)