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Notice that this verse says God's attributes, power, and nature, can be clearly seen in creation. What does that mean? Should we be able to learn about God's attributes, power, and nature by looking at what He has made? Apparently, according to the Bible, this is possible. When a painter paints a picture, what is in him is reflected in the painting he produces.

Great points...who was created in the image of God?

Man. We are made in the image of God. This applies also to the Godhead.

2 sexes, male and female.

We have 2 arms. 2 legs. 2 nostrils. 2 eyes. 2 brain halves. 2 lungs. 2 kidneys. 2 hands. 2 feet. 2 ankles. 2 femurs. 2 tibulas. 2 ears. Men have 2 testicles, women 2 ovaries. 2 breasts. You get the idea.

We are bi-symmetrical. The two parts of our body combine to make one just as the father and son make one in the Godhead.

When we marry two people become one.

Yes, we do reflect our maker and we do reflect the Godhead....our bodies scream it!

“When we marry two people become one.”

I’m not sure why you ping me when you know what my answer is. It’s the same answer I’ve challenged you on in several different anti-Trinitarian threads you have started.

Why should we believe that there are “two” Gods, as your religion teaches, and an open Godhead wherein men will join, when the scripture clearly teaches there is only one God?

Isa_44:8 ... Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.

Isa_43:10 ... before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.

Deu 4:35 Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him.

Deu 4:39 Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.

All your arguments are utterly moot, from the very beginning, since from the very beginning God has taught a monotheistic religion. There is no room for “two gods” becoming one in a “God family” in a world wherein there is “No God beside Him,” and no God formed before or after Him. So, you can go on and on with flaky arguments about husbands and wives, but it doesn’t matter one whit when the scripture does not teach polytheism.

As for men being made in the image of God, and your comments on “male and female”, two arms, two legs, flesh and body, etc. According to scripture, God is Spirit:

Joh_4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

And Spirit is not defined as flesh and bone:

Luk_24:39 Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.

This image, therefore, cannot have anything to do with our physical parts. God isn’t up there with a human looking body, with us as exact duplicates, waiting to get married so we can have a “full image”. The reference, therefore, is to our spiritual nature, prior to the fall.

Pro 20:27 The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.

From the Illustrious Matthew Henry:

“But it is the soul, the great soul, of man, that does especially bear God’s image. The soul is a spirit, an intelligent immortal spirit, an influencing active spirit, herein resembling God, the Father of Spirits, and the soul of the world. The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord. The soul of man, considered in its three noble faculties, understanding, will, and active power, is perhaps the brightest clearest looking-glass in nature, wherein to see God. 2. In his place and authority: Let us make man in our image, and let him have dominion. As he has the government of the inferior creatures, he is, as it were, God’s representative, or viceroy, upon earth; they are not capable of fearing and serving God, therefore God has appointed them to fear and serve man. Yet his government of himself by the freedom of his will has in it more of God’s image than his government of the creatures. 3. In his purity and rectitude. God’s image upon man consists in knowledge, righteousness, and true holiness, Eph_4:24; Col_3:10. He was upright, Ecc_7:29. He had an habitual conformity of all his natural powers to the whole will of God. His understanding saw divine things clearly and truly, and there were no errors nor mistakes in his knowledge. His will complied readily and universally with the will of God, without reluctancy or resistance. His affections were all regular, and he had no inordinate appetites or passions. His thoughts were easily brought and fixed to the best subjects, and there was no vanity nor ungovernableness in them. All the inferior powers were subject to the dictates and directions of the superior, without any mutiny or rebellion. Thus holy, thus happy, were our first parents, in having the image of God upon them. And this honour, put upon man at first, is a good reason why we should not speak ill one of another (Jam_3:9), nor do ill one to another (Gen_9:6), and a good reason why we should not debase ourselves to the service of sin, and why we should devote ourselves to God’s service. But how art thou fallen, O son of the morning! How is this image of God upon man defaced! How small are the remains of it, and how great the ruins of it! The Lord renew it upon our souls by his sanctifying grace!”