Let us make mankind in our image

By George Calleja

04/28/2022 • View profile

One of the most quoted and known verses of the Bible is found in the very beginning, when one reads the well-known book of Genesis. In Genesis 1:26-27 God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

How wonderful and powerful this quote from the Bible is. God declares the making of mankind in God’s likeness, as male and female. This was the beginning of a perfect society, a society built on God’s love, of humans sharing together, of helping one another. From the very first part of the Bible, we see that God from the beginning already trusted mankind, already trusted His creation of male and female to rule the world, to live together in harmony. The fish, the birds, the livestock and wild animals and all other creatures… mankind was entrusted with all this.

Creation was the sharing of God’s love to mankind. An intimate, personal relationship between God and mankind had started. A personal relationship of God with His creation… with man and woman.

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About the Author

George Calleja

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I am George Calleja from Malta; I am married and have two children. In 2009, I obtained my MBA through the University of Leicester.

During the years 1990 to 1996, I was a full-time missionary with ‘The International Catholic Programme for Evangelization - ICPE’ and have evangelized in various countries, such as Russia, Ghana, Poland, Germany, and Malta amongst others. Since 1997, I am an active member of the Focolare Movement in Malta.

Since June 2012, I created a website by the name of 'Peace and Unity in our lives', which provides inspiration and encouragement for life, and an opportunity for people around the globe to find courage by trusting God to be more present in their life.

I also am a Christian Author. My first book was Peace and Unity in our lives – Volume One (Nov. 2014). I published my second book (Jan. 2015), Volume Two of Peace and Unity in our lives (now in paperback). My third book ‘Yes… I will follow Him’, published in March 2015. I published a free ebook Evangelization (June 2015) through Social Networking Sites', which is also available in paperback for a minimal price.

Other Christian books of mine are:

September 2015 - ‘The Beatitudes… the blessings from the Sermon on the Mount’

January 2016 – ‘My little book of daily prayer’,

April 2016 – ‘Taste and see that the Lord is good’,

September 2016 – ‘The Light’

February 2017 – ‘Heal my Wounds’

July 2017 – ‘Waking up the sleeping giant’ a free ebook to download, which is also available for a minimal price as a paperback version,

December 2017 - 'Spiritual Reflections',

June 2018 - 'In His Image',

January 2019 - 'Her Silence',

October 2019 - 'Come To Me',

November 2020 - 'Emmaus... in today's society',