“Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule . . . over all the earth. . . .’ SO GOD CREATED MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE, in the image of God he created him; MALE AND FEMALE HE CREATED THEM.”
—Genesis 1:26, 27.

God decided to create individuals like Himself who could reason and
feel and love. Every human being is made in God’s “image.” That’s the first Good News statement from the Bible that will help us understand ourselves.

“The LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.”
—Genesis 2:7.

By the sixth day, the world was filled with plants and animals, and then God was ready to introduce His masterpiece of creation; the Almighty formed Adam’s body from the dust of the ground. So when God breathed “the breath of life” into his nostrils, man became “a living being”—that is, he came to life.