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Genesis 1:26-27 (ESV)
26Then 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 birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
I’ve always understood this verse to refer to our spirit and its qualities. However, a friend and I each had conversations this weekend with individuals claiming, among other things, that this verse refers to our physical appearance as well – that our sexual nature actually gives physical expression to some attribute of God.
Is there any scriptural basis for such a reading from this passage? In other words, to what does “image” here refer?
