Someone said, "God is an artist" and someone else said, "He is a mathematician" etc. All these are true but he is also a copier (not a copycat). God created man in his image.
The image of God in man was not complete after the creation of Adam. This is because the essence of God is love. Without someone to love Adam could not 'mirror' the image of God. For him to love the animals would not be enough, it had to be someone his equal. Hence the creation of Eve from Adam's rib.
The trinity makes sense when we analyse the concept of love. How could God create in us the capability to love if he had no experience of it himself? When God refers to himself as 'us', it is because he is not just one person. The Father, Son and Holy Spirit have had a love relationship since before the world began.
Not only are we humans capable of love, but also of duplicating ourselves. The image of God in us enables us to carry on this copying process, often with disastrous consequences. Of course God is really the one 'making' the child in its mother's womb but he gave humans the power to start the process.
I am therefore a copy of a copy of ... of a copy of Adam who was a copy of God. That is why I have so many flaws. The earlier copies were better and lived longer (some over 900 years).
Another aspect of God's image involves the ability to choose. This has been the subject of a multitude of books, debates and theological arguments over many centuries. To probe the real meaning of 'free will' is to explore the nature of God himself.
