Why are we made according to God?

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In God’s creation we are all made God in the sense that we were created in God’s image and according to God’s likeness. This means that we all look like God. To be made God in this sense is not to be made an object of worship. We are not God in that sense.

In Genesis 1 we are told that in God’s creation, God made the plants and the animals after their own kind, respectively (vv. 12, 21, 24-25). However, man, who was created in the image and likeness of God, was made after God’s kind, not man’s kind. Therefore, at least we can say that we are like God.
 

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In God’s creation we are all made God in the sense that we were created in God’s image and according to God’s likeness.
That was true for creation before the Fall. Now people are to be re-made in the image of Christ (who is God) through the New Birth (regeneration). Therefore those who are saved are "predestined to be conformed to the image of God's Son" (Rom 8:29).
 
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In God’s creation we are all made God in the sense that we were created in God’s image and according to God’s likeness. This means that we all look like God. To be made God in this sense is not to be made an object of worship. We are not God in that sense.

In Genesis 1 we are told that in God’s creation, God made the plants and the animals after their own kind, respectively (vv. 12, 21, 24-25). However, man, who was created in the image and likeness of God, was made after God’s kind, not man’s kind. Therefore, at least we can say that we are like God.
But then being made in God's image, Adam and Eve sinned. Dead people do not look like God who is Alive! Were not all of Adam and Eve's children being born to dead parents also dead?