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We were created in God's image . There's nothing mere about us, unless we don't try.

Yes, we were created in God's image. We can't believe just what we choose to believe and leave ANY of His Word unattended. However, many exercise their free will and lean unto their own understanding in certain areas.

WITHOUT HIM, we are mere - left to our own understanding. It's only under His covering by believing His Word and, thus, following and standing firm in His Truth can we claim His likeness. If we oppose Him we can't be like Him. However, when one gets to know their Savior through a personal relationship, they never want to oppose Him. Because you know that you know that you know.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

If we oppose Him we can't be like Him.

Actually it was the first act in defiance of God -- the eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge -- that worried God that man was about to become "as one of" Him. It is when we exercise our free will and attempt our own understanding that we are most like Him.

[atlaw]

If we oppose Him we can't be like Him.

Well, technically, from a Biblical standpoint, once we acquired the knowledge of good and evil, we became like God.

Opposition to God the Father may lead to retribution, but it doesn't change our likeness to God. After all, the very act of acquiring the knowledge of good and evil (which rendered man "as one of us") was in opposition to God's command.