Why does god say lets create man in our image?

Well, I came up with this problem myself. What I have trouble understanding is why it is "our" image. Isn't there only one God? Maybe there isn't one God. Maybe there is God and God's wife? The creators of the Bible said that the Bible is created by the Holy Spirit (God). So why "our"?

Deu 5:8 Thou shalt not make thee [any] graven image, [or] any likeness [of any thing] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the waters beneath the earth:

You forgot the next verse which explains not to "bow down and worship it". Then it becomes an idol.

Deu 5:9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me,

Professor Roberts, the COG Security Minister, said, “God, we need to add an addendum to our previous directive. The new humans are to be created in the same size and appearance as the people on Big H.”

Roberts chuckled and whispered to God, “We don’t want them to look like some weird science-fiction creatures.”

While they were on the subject of image and size, Satan insisted that he should also be in the image and size of the new humans. To be fair, all of God's angels would also be in the image and size of the new humans.

HE MADE OUR SPIRIT IN HIS IMAGE

WE ARE LIKE IN HIM IN THE SENSE OF

MIND BODY SPIRIT

FATHER SON HOLYGHOST

That's just like when he says he is a jealous god. It means there is another to be jealous of.

Just an example of how over time the bible has changed over time.

How this came about ive come to believe that in order to make sense of god and picture him in peoples minds they pictured him as human, also the concept of trinity played a factor since the change probably came at a time where people thought Jesus was god.

God's perfect, the human form is not.

Science shows we started out as micro organisms, and then fish. So is God this magical invisible fish, or micro organism?

It meant that their next creation of beings would not be like the animals already created, but actually aware beings with intellect and more than just instinct.

Of course, the way that people "hook up" these days isn't too different from the animal kingdom.

They breed, it seems...

...because they can.

...but there is more to the story than that.

If you stop behaving in God's "image," they have a term for that.

we were created in God's image. so i'm assuming God looks like a person.

Don't bother yourself with such useless questions; the Bible is a load of ****, anyway.

We are in God's image in the spiritual sense. For example God loves, we also love.

The other verse you mentioned has nothing to do with the first one. It forbids us from worshiping physical images of idol gods.

So, 'image' in the first verse is 'spititual image of God'. and 'image' in the second verse is 'physical image of idol (false) gods.

learn grammar. God created us in HIS image. I don't know what Bible your grandmother is using...

Being made in God's image doesn't mean his physical image it means personality traits.
Today there are a lot of people who do not act using these personality traits.
But rather those that are selfish, unloving, unkind, disloyal, unthankful, disobedient. -
2 Timothy 3:1-6
Jehovah God created man in His image, according to His likeness. (Genesis 1:26, 27) God thus endowed humans with qualities that mirror his own. Hence, when the Bible urges Christians to “become imitators of God,” it is as if Jehovah himself were saying to them: ‘I believe in you. I know that despite your imperfections, you have the ability to be like me to a certain extent.’Jehovah does not force humans to imitate him. On the contrary, he has dignified us with free will. So whether you will become an imitator of God or not is up to you. (Deuteronomy 30:19, 20) Never forget, though, that you have within you the potential for displaying godlike qualities.

Deuteronomy 5:8 Is talking about the use of the cross and other aids to pray to God like statues and beads.
The Scriptures do not sanction the use of images as a means to address God in prayer. Such a practice runs counter to the principle that those seeking to serve Jehovah must worship him with spirit and truth.
There is not a single instance in Scripture where faithful servants of Jehovah resorted to the use of visual aids to pray to God or engaged in a form of relative worship.

(Acts 17:29)  “Seeing, therefore, that we are the progeny of God, we ought not to imagine that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, like something sculptured by the art and contrivance of man."

The second part you stated points more to what I believe is true. The Bible tells us that this is not our world, so do not become friends with it, or love what's in it. Why? Because when we do, we define ourselves by that of this world, and we then loose touch with our spiritual or metaphysical nature. Therefore, "Let's make man in our image" is #1 non-physical, as our inner-being is, and #2 states that their was more than one God or god-like being involved in creating man.

Man's image is Love, Wisdom, Power and Justice.

He is the only animal smart enough to build spaceships that go into space, the moon and
other planets.