What the Bible says about God creating man in His own image, pt. 2

MAN WAS CREATED
The Bible well documents the creation of man. Genesis 1:26-27 declares, “Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.’ So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.”

Man is first introduced into the biblical record as being made by God, “…Let us make man…”. The Hebrew word for make is asha, and means, to assemble existing materials into an order. (We shall see that this word is used when God created man from the dust of the earth. The other Hebrew word used for make is bara and means to create out of nothing, as in Genesis 1:1, where God spoke the world into existence from nothing).
The following passages teach the creation of man as absolute fact. Deuteronomy 4:32 declares, “For ask now concerning the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether any great thing like this has happened, or anything like it has been heard." Isaiah 45:12 declares, “I have made the earth, And created man on it. I — My hands — stretched out the heavens, And all their host I have commanded.” Colossians 1:16 declares, “For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.” Revelation 4:11 declares, “You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will they exist and were created." The Bible clearly teaches that man was created by God; he did not evolve over a period of millions and millions of years; he did not come into being by accident, or by a series of fortuitous circumstances.