D Copyright 1996, John H. Stoll Dr. John H. Stoll is Executive Director of A.S.K., Inc., a professional counseling and Bible teaching organization. A complete resume is available. The first woman was potentially created in the man, and brought into individual existence by a special formative act of God. This image was a natural likeness to God, morally, with personality, and intellect, sensibility and will. Adam also had a mirroring of the meta-physical moral attributes of God.
Mankind has some power, some understanding, a limited body, etc.
Only God has the full non-moral attributes. This is what separates God from mankind, and allows Him to be God, and man to be man. In I Thess. His Spirit is his closest point of resemblance and contact with God. His being created with a moral side to his nature tells him he ought to do right by God's standards, Rom.