Gen 1: 26-28.

Excerpt…There was a time after his creation but before Adam sinned: let us call that his pre-lapse that we may call the time afterward, his lapse. In the pre-lapse, Adam and Eve were both sinless and childless. But here’s the kicker: they then had the image and likeness of God. Therefore, to see the prelapsarian Adam, was to see the image of God. Giving humanity the first of three chances to sing “mine eyes have seen the glory!” Let’s read it: “And God said, Let us make man in our 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. 28And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over … every living thing that moveth upon the earth.” —Gen 1: 26-28. Thanks to Paul’s referral to Genesis, we must stress over Adam’s blessings at creation —by straining to count at least four graces given to Him— 1)“dominion”, 2)“multiplication or fruitfulness”, 3)“replenishment”, and 4)a wife, his prelapsarian gifts from God. Then he lapsed and became a sinner: He became the opposite to the likeness of God. The begging question then is, did the serpent, Satan, through his deception, actually defeat Father’s will? I give the resounding answer no, for such is not possible. What he did accomplish was the intensification of Christ’s work, His meat. It is called His meat as a contrast to Adam’s meat, meat means bread, the thing which the disciples offered to the Lord in John four when they returned from the market