Section 4
likeness is the expression, or the outward appear ance, of the image.
GOD'S PURPOSE IN CREATING MAN
Man was created in God's image and after God's likeness in order to be God's duplication that he may express God. The duplication is in God's image, and the expression is after God's likeness.
GOD'S INTENTION TO BE MAN'S LIFE AND CONTENT
In Genesis 1:26 and 27 we have the container but not the content. The content is found in Genesis 2. According to the record in Genesis 2, after God created man, He prepared a garden and placed man in it. Two trees are mentioned by name: the tree of life and the tree of the knowl edge of good and evil. God's intention was that the man created by Him would take of the tree of life and live.
We cannot understand the significance of the tree of life simply by Genesis 2. By reading the entire Bible we see that the tree of life is a symbol of God as life. For example, Psalm 36:9 says, "With thee is the fountain of life." In the