What Does It Mean To Be Made In The "Image Of God?"

       All of us realize that ultimate truth is beyond our human capacity to completely understand. However, we can and have labeled this ultimate truth and power as God because we know that the world and universe exist as a result of some kind of progressive, creative process. The human mind doesn't like uncertainty so some of us write out our own explanations of life and its purpose. When these explanations include traditional stories, dogma, rituals, and "orthodox" discipline, we create religions. Religions tend to turn God into a supernatural male personality. If God is defined by the image of man, then, of course, mankind can be viewed as made in the "image of God." 

       I believe that when we individually accept what we know, stand on the edge of our knowledge and openly seek new, higher understandings, that leads to individual spiritual growth that actually does raise our thinking toward God (ultimate truth and power). From that perspective we tend to realize that even though we are limited by the earthly scope of our knowledge and power, the ultimate knowledge and power of God includes, at the very least, all that we are and all that we can be.  I think that is what the writer of Genesis meant by describing man as made in the "image of God."