Some general thoughts.  Consider Genesis 1:26 where the Bible says that God created man in His image and according to His likeness. With the following as a governing view, what a different world it would be.  Yet this is the central thought of the entire Bible.

Adam was created in the image of God. God is invisible, yet He has an image. His image is Christ Himself (Col. 1:15; 2 Cor. 4:4). Thus, Adam was created according to Christ. Adam was copied according to Christ, so he was a copy of Christ. The image of God is the expression of God. Christ as the image of God is the declaration, the expression, of God. He declares God and expresses God (John 1:18). Because Adam was created according to Christ and is a copy of Christ, we may say that he was the duplication and multiplication of Christ.

As the descendants of Adam, we are duplicates of Christ because we were made in the image of God. This means that we were made according to Christ in the expression of God. We are the copies, the duplication, the multiplication, of Christ. God created man because He had the intention to have Christ multiplied, increased, copied, duplicated. This is the very thought of God.

God’s intention, God’s desire, is to duplicate, to multiply, Christ, the expression of God. Christ was the only begotten Son of God from eternity, and in resurrection He became the Firstborn among many brothers (Rom. 8:29). He was the very image of God, but now He is the first one of many images of God. After God’s creation, there is the duplication, the multiplication, of Christ. God created man, and that man is Christ in image and likeness.

My first time posting.  The blog concept is very interesting, but I enter this arena with a view toward offering ideas and challenging folks to newly consider an idea that has been around for as long as man has existed.  That is, first and foremost, we are created beings.  Given that, does the Creator have a plan or intention regarding the beings that He created?  The threshold question, in other words, is there a Creator, a God, seems to be something that the vast majority of people accept.  The difficulty seems to lie with determining what is the plan?  Through use of this blog, I hope to offer some ideas on this question.  To me, it is the most important of all questions.