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Well it could mean that both the man and the woman are in the image of God. I mean there are times when I see someone walking down the street I wonder if it was a boy or a girl. Maybe God made us different in a few areas and that was enough to describe mankind.
Or, for your consideration, the image of God has nothing to do with human anatomy, biology, or form. It instead has to do with the fact that we bear the divine image as creatures who are supposed to represent God in creation, and thus God gave humans dominion over the earth, to care for it, to reflect God's majesty, goodness, compassion, love, etc into the world. Because the narrative of creation is about God creating His temple--heaven and earth--where He wishes to dwell; and He has created mankind and put us here to be His image-bearing creature to reflect Himself into creation. The purpose of which is fully realized in Christ, and ultimately we see the consummation of God's creative purposes in the penultimate chapter of the Apocalypse where in renewing and restoring the entirety of creation there is a marriage between heaven and earth represented by the new Jerusalem descending, and God shall dwell with man on the earth: He being our God and we His people, and ever shall it be, world without end.
It's not about God creating physical copies of Himself, but creating a people to bear Himself within creation and ultimately establishing all of creation as the place where God shall dwell. The images of the Tabernacle and the Temple pointing us to the reality of Christ, and the Church, and ultimately what God intends for all things--as we read in the Apocalypse there is no need for a temple since full and glorious presence of God will fill all things.
"Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying,
'See, the home of God is among mortals.
He will dwell with them;
they will be his peoples,
and God himself will be with them;
he will wipe every tear from their eyes.
Death will be no more;
mourning and crying and pain will be no more,
for the first things have passed away.'
And the one who was seated on the throne said, 'See, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this, for these words are trustworthy and true.' Then he said to me, 'It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give water as a gift from the spring of the water of life. Those who conquer will inherit these things, and I will be their God and they will be my children.'" - Revelation 21:1-7
"I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God is its light, and its lamp is the Lamb. The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it. Its gates will never be shut by day—and there will be no night there. People will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations." - Revelation 21:22-26
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