God God
Woman Woman Man Man
Beasts Beasts
Serpent Serpent
Word Word
Rule Rule

In the beginning…

God creates man in His image, after His kind, which means that man was created in the likeness of God’s character. God states that His purpose for creating man is to make man His representative ruler over creation. This man, Adam, is placed in a garden called Eden and provided with a woman who would be his helpmate. Adam was to represent God’s character, and adhere to God’s wisdom by following God’s Word and ruling/blessing the other creatures from the land which God had established him. The structure of God’s rule over creation is ordered by God’s Word to the man through the woman.
Genesis 1:26… 	“Let us make man in Our image… and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth”