Struggling with this principle

Image means what you look like.

But if God made us what he looks like, wouldn't we did when we look in the mirror, or at eachother?

Image means what you look like.

If you understand what Gen 1:27 actually translates to then you would understand. It says the gods (elohim) said let us make man in our image, after our likeness. The God of gods is Jehovah. Christ didn’t say Johovah is spirit. He said Theos is spirit. Spirit of Theos is divinity oneness. When Abram saw and ate with Johovah. He wasn’t eating with a spirit. This is what the Bible states without preconception.

Image means who we are and what we are

We look nothing like God.. physically. But who we are. and what we are is in the image of God and this includes our free will to chose. Animals do not have this trait

I have to stop you there. You can's take a principle of man and determine that's how God works. That's dangerous ground and not biblical.

Not theory. Truth is evident. When scripture calls for belief that is quite evidently calling for choice.

It's the other way around. Man has patterned his adopting procedure from God's example.

The natural man, according to 1 Cor 2:14, cannot choose things that are of a spiritual nature until he has been born again by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Until that happens, he can only make choices by his natural understanding.

And besides, the adoption agency tells you which child is available for adoption. You don't go down there like a pet shop and pick one out of the litter.

Do you base your statements on scripture, or your own analysis?

I'm really beginning to think your bible only contains this one verse. To build an entire doctrine off one verse is dangerous.

That is completely based on your assumption. What the text reads is that we were created in the image of the elohim, the heavenly beings. Perhaps there is more evidence scripturally that we and they are not as different as some profess. The sons of elohim (heavenly beings) saw that the daughters of men were fair and took them as wives. Jehovah and two elohim ate with Abra(ha)m. Jacob wrestled with an angel (angels are elohim) which is speculated to be Jehovah(?) which makes no sense, but clearly from the heavens regardless. The NT tells us we may be entertaining angels unaware. Also the Captain of Yahweh’s army in Joshua 5:13-15, Joshua thought at first was a man. Over and over we see Yahweh (Jehovah) and angelic beings being seen as men. In Genesis it declares the elohim (heavenly beings) said “let us make make man in our image” and not once does anyone hold it at face value. The “demons” that some people are often referred to as unclean spirits. There is speculation that these are the disembodied spirits of the Nephalim (hybrids of men and elohim), hence unclean.

I don't form a theology based upon one verse, but comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

We are Israel.

So, in your attempt to dispute the doctrine that I teach, why do you not use scripture references to back up your statements?

Abraham ate with the spirit of God who took on physical form,

God is spirit. Even Jehovah told moses, if you should look on me you would die. He appeared to moses also as a flame in a bush.. He takes many forms.

Which tribe are you from?

The natural man, according to 1 Cor 2:14, cannot choose things that are of a spiritual nature until he has been born again by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Until that happens, he can only make choices by his natural understanding.