"And God said, Let us make man in our own image, after our likeness; . . . So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."-Gen. 1:26, 27. It was the divine plan of God before the creation of the world, to have a pure and holy people to serve him here upon the earth. We read, that "he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy, and without blame before him in love."-Eph. 1:4.
Man as he came from the hand of God, in the morning of creation, was pure and holy, in "God's own image and likeness." It was not the "outer man"-body-that God created in his likeness, (as blind Advents and all "nosoulists" teach), but the "inner man"-soul. God is a Spirit. God is holy. And the image in which he created man is clearly stated to be "righteousness and true holiness." Col. 3:9, 10. Eph. 4:23, 24. This image, man lost through the fall; but it is restored to us through the redemption of Christ. 2 Cor. 3:18. So man, in the morning of creation, was as pure and holy as his Maker. He walked and talked with God.