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Genesis 1:26 says, “Then God said, “Let us make man in Our image, after Our likeness.” Whatever it means to be made in God’s image, it is something that is completely and equally true of every one of us.  

It is completely true of both genders. Both male and female are made in the image of God.  

You’d have to be living under a rock to not know that the above sentences are highly controversial. A few years ago The Times in London reported that a series of films for middle-school students in Britain taught that there are 100 genders or more. [1]  

But it’s also controversial, in a different way, among some Christians. Years ago I had a conversation with a friend who was a fellow student at Southern Seminary. He told me that one day he was going to get a PhD. When I asked him what he would write a dissertation on, he told me he wanted to write about his belief that only men, not women, were created in the image of God  

Look again at Genesis 1:27—So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.  

Aha! God made man in His image. God created “him” in his image. “Man” and “him” are both referring to the entire human race, not to Adam exclusively. We can see this clearly in Genesis 5:1b-2, “When God created man, He made him in the likeness of God. Male and female He created them, and He blessed them and named them Man when they were created.”  

The Bible teaches that men and women are different in form and function, but equal in dignity and value. Wherever Christianity has been rightly understood and applied, women have been protected and valued.  

Every human being, both male and female are made in God’s image.  

 

[1] Nicholas Hellen, “BBC Films Teach Children of ‘100 Genders, or More,’” The Times, September 8, 2019, sec. The Sunday Times, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bbc-films-teach-children-of-100-genders-or-more-7xfhbg97p.