All human beings—male and female—are created in the image of God.

 

• Genesis 1:26-27.  And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

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• Genesis 5:1-2... In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;  Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

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• Matthew 19:4.  And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,

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• Mark 10:6.  But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.

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• Mosiah 7:27.  And because he said unto them that Christ was the God, the Father of all things, and said that he should take upon him the image of man, and it should be the image after which man was created in the beginning; or in other words, he said that man was created after the image of God, and that God should come down among the children of men, and take upon him flesh and blood, and go forth upon the face of the earth.

 

• Alma 18:34.  Ammon said unto him: I am a man; and man in the beginning was created after the image of God, and I am called by his Holy Spirit to teach these things unto this people, that they may be brought to a knowledge of that which is just and true;

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Each is a beloved spirit son or daughter of heavenly parents, and, as such, each has a divine nature and destiny.

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• Hebrews 12:9.  Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?