First of all, the word image - transliterated it is tselem, and it means, shape, resemblance, figure, shadow. You can see that there is nothing abstract there in what that word specifically means. The meaning that comes closest to something being abstract is the word shadow.
So Adam lived one hundred and thirty years and begot a son in his own likeness, after his shape, after his resemblance, after his figure, after his shadow. There is absolutely no argument from anybody anywhere about the meaning of image here. There is nothing abstract.
Even as the animals reproduced after their kind, so did Adam and Eve reproduce after their kind. What was reproduced was in the form and shape of Adam and Eve. It was in the image. It is only when we apply this to God that people begin to question. All go on the assumption that God really does not have any shape to Him. It is only something that He conveniently uses. That is not what the Bible testifies at all.
If we are going to be consistent, let us be consistent. If we are going to be accurate with the scriptures, we have got to be consistent with the way these words are used in the scripture. The same word is used of Adam and Eve as is used of God.
Now again, if it is used for God in Genesis 1:26 (God's creation of man in His image), and then we see it here in Genesis 5:1 and 3, don't we have to apply the same discernment of what God intends? I think in order to be honest we do. We were in Isaiah 40:18. You can write this down. The word demooth appears.
