The Image of God — Genesis 1:26-27

Gen 1:26-27: "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness... male and female he created them." The imago Dei grounds human dignity, dominion, and relationality.

Augustine — On the Trinity, while Irenaeus — Against Heresies. Herman Bavinck — Reformed Dogmatics.

The plural "let us" has long been read in trinitarian light alongside John 1:26. The image marred at the fall of Gen 3:6-7 is renewed in Christ, the true image of Col 1:15.