Mt: 22:20: And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription?
What was Jesus asking here ? Whose likeness is on this coin? An image is a likeness.
Rom :8:29: For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
As we see, images can be like one in ways other than looks, I am pretty sure all the apostles did not have the same appearance of Jesus.
Rom: 11:4: But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
Images can be representative of something unseen. I can’t recollect where anyone actually saw the god Baal, but they made an image to represent it.
1 Cor :15:49: And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
2 Cor: 3:18: But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
As we see images can change. Our looks may change with age, but what we represent can change instantly .
2 Cor: 4:4: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
We see here that Christ is the image of God, not in appearance, but in the gospel.
Col: 1:15: Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
We are told Jesus Christ, the amazing Son of God is the very image of his Father.
Heb: 1:3: Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
We are told that even Jesus can change in image, no he didn’t change from the way he was the image of God, but he did change from his appearance of the image of man.
Now that I have given my explanation of what the word image means, Question ; can an image in actuality be the original,? Or does there have to be an original, before there can be an image ? Can Jesus really be God, and the image of God?