This first post is brief, and asks these questions:
1). What is this Genesis 1:27 scripture telling us, as you understand it, about God, and about mankind?
2a). Does the Bible give any direct or specific answers to question 1, in this verse, or anywhere else?So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
2b). If you conclude it does, where are the verses and what do they specify?
If you conclude it does not, why doesn't it do so?
3). The previous verse puts our subject in a different way.
3a). Why is the difference there; plural in this verse, 26, and singular in verse 27?26 Then God said, “Let Us/us make man in Our/our image, after our/Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”
3b). Who is "our/Our" and "Us/us" referring to? God as a Trinity, the angels, or?
3c). Do Christianity and Judaism give different answers to question 3b?
If so, what, and why?