The question I was asked:
Did God create the angels after His own image?
My first answer, without further study of Scriptures, would be 'no', because He specified 'man' would be made in 'Our image, Our likeness'. "Our" would include the existing angels along with Yahweh, as they are similar beings, of the same Spiritual substance.
Genesis 1:26 = Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness
Verse 27 = And God created man in His image, in the image of God He created them.
It seems the angelic realm has existed with God prior to the earth age yet we do not know if they were created or were naturally part of His Spiritual Realm. What we know for certain is both Yahweh and His Host exist in the Spiritual realm and us mere humans do not have a full understanding of what this means. Our day will come.
Hebrews 1:14 =
Are not the angels ministering spirits
sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?
Here is a distinction I've never paid attention to before. Read Genesis 5.
This is the record of Adam's line. When God created man He made him in the likeness of God, male and female He created them. And when they were created He blessed them and called them Man. When Adam had lived 130 years he begot a son in his likeness after his image, and he named him Seth.
Adam and Eve were created in the image and likeness of Yahweh and His heavenly host. When physical man began to procreate they were in his human image.
This might be why we need to be born again....
•John 3 ~ I tell you that unless a person is born again from above he cannot see the Kingdom of God... unless a person is born from water and the Spirit he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.
We have been born from water = a physical birth. Now we must experience that Spiritual birth and it doesn't come from being baptized. It comes from reading and studying and being in fellowship with other set apart believers as we seek Yahweh and gain understanding via His Spirit.
John 4:23 ~
But the hour is coming and now is when the true worshippers will worship
the Father in spirit and in truth, indeed. Yahweh seeks worshippers as
these. For Yahweh is Spirit, and those who worship must worship Him in
spirit and in truth.
John 14:16
~ And I will ask of my Father and He will give you another Redeemer who
will be with your forever. The Spirit of Truth, he who the world is not
able to receive because it has not seen Him nor knows Him. But you know
Him for He dwells with you and He is in you.
John 15:26 ~
But when the Redeemer comes, he whom I will send to you from the
presence of my Father, the Spirit of Truth, He who proceeds from the
presence of my Father will witness concerning me.
