I wrote above:
The Holy Bible shows that the holy God had a council and a decision was made between the "Persons" of the great Divine "Us".
It is the Triune God speaking. It is the Trinity which is implied in the passage.
Man was in some way made according to Christ. Christ is the image of the invisible God.
Who [Christ] is the image of the invisible God, the Firstborn of all creation ... " (Col. 1:15)
Rather than Christ coming after man's creation in some way He preceeds man's creation. The image of God into which the Trinity made man was Christ. Before the Logos was incarnated as Jesus of Nazareth man was created according to the pre-incarnate Jesus Christ.
God ... has at the last of these days spoken to us in the Son, whom He appointed Heir of all things, through whom also He made the universe; Who, being the effulgence of His glory and the impress of His substance ... (See Hebrews 1:1-3)
Christ, before His incarnation, Who was apppointed Heir of all things is the effulgence of God's glory. Man was created according to Christ. This is what it means for the Triune God to say
"Let Us create man in our own image."
"Christ, who is the image of God ..." (1 Cor. 4:4)
The Trinity created man according to Christ, Who Paul says, is the image of God.
Christ speaks of His pre-incarnate existence in His great prayer for the church:
"And now, glorify Me along with Yourself Father, with the glory which I had with You before the world was. (John 17:5)
Before the world existed Christ was the effulgence of the glory of the Father. Man was created after a council of the Trinity in which it was decided that man would be created according to this Second Person of the Trinity.
" ... that they may behold My glory, which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world." (John 17:24)
Christ, loved and in the glory of the Father before the foundation of the world, was the template according to which man was created.
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