creation

What does "image" in Genesis 1:26-27 mean?

What does "image" in Genesis 1:26-27 mean?

Genesis 1:26-27 (ESV)

26Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over ever…

What is the “Light” of Genesis 1:3?

What is the “Light” of Genesis 1:3?

In Genesis 1:3 (ESV), it is written,

And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

The Hebrew word which is translated into English as “light” is אֹור (or) (Strong’s H216).

Is this “light” to be understood literally or…