RASHID MUGHAL

"PEACE & VIOLENCE"

 
 
You have asked for a scriptural reference for "Scriptures remind us that we were created in the image and likeness of [. . .] God." It should be clear to any discerning reader that the word 'Scriptures' may refer to any of the 'revealed' books or the entire corpus of Judeo-Christian-Muslim literature. To answer your question, my reference is from the first book of the Bible, Genesis, chapter 1, verse 26: "And God went on to say, 'Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness."
 
Verse 27 reads: "And God proceeded to create the man in his image, in God's image he created him, male and female he created them."
 
Of course there's no Koranic reference that says the same thing, literally word for word, but then both the Torah and the Bible predate the Koran, and the story in all three books is the same, about the same God and the same characters which He brought to life.
 
I hope that satisfies your curiosity.
 
Rashid Mughal
 
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