[rwfromkansas]

Those pronouns simply are used to refer to the trinity, IMO. I don't have any exegetical basis for thinking so, but man could not create man obviously.

[onedoug]

Interesting. But the Jews in conveying Torah were and never have been Trinitarians. Though this possessive sense could be interpreted too as including all the other creatures that God had created to that time.

I find it instructive however, that this "likeness" endowed by God, and then increasingly assumed by Man over his creation, establishes the battle between good and evil which has raged within him, and with God, ever since...which so far as we can tell, has never been the case with any other entity.

In that sense, the most profound question we could ask of any (extra)-terrestrial intelligence we may eventually encounter, is whether they too perceive of a deity in the universe.