When did Homo Sapiens become 'in the image of God' ?

Hi, Slevesque.Cool topic idea!Since I attended a Christian private university (Brigham Young University), this very topic was discussed during my Evolutionary Biology course (the professor did not purport to give an answer to the question, though, because there really isn't an official answer in the LDS Church). Please don't take any of the following as official Mormon doctrine, because I'm just making it up for myself. Biblically, yes.
In reality, who knows?
But, if there is a difference, it isn't nearly as great as most Christians think.----- I'm not convinced that He does, but perhaps it has something to do with the fact that we wrote a Bible, while the other animals did not.Perhaps if the cockroaches invented a language that had a word for "special," then God would tell them that they were special, too.----- Deodorant.
We invented it: they didn't.
Think about it.----- It was a long time ago. In fact, the Neanderthal was God's perfect image, and, since we are a side branch from a tropical lineage, we've all been cursed to never be granted the privilege of having the heavy brow, giant nose and robust stature of the one true God, and, we'll never be allowed to live in the ice-cold paradise of Heaven, instead being relegated to the warm tropical beaches of pseudo-Heaven: God's just convinced us that this is desirable, when, in fact, it is not.Seriously, I agree with Dr Adequate, that this is somewhat figurative. Maybe we look like God, and maybe God can alter His image to look like any of his myriad creations, but, for the most part, He's more talking about our abilities than our appearance.

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Hi, Cat. Yeah, probably.Which renders all of Christendom somewhat contradictory: Jesus's whole message was about learning to debase and humble oneself, yet we insist on tauting our self-worth as beloved children of God. The fact that Christians still view certain things as beneath us indicates that we, as a unit, have not learned the principle behind what Jesus was trying to teach us.

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Hi, Petrophysics. Um... yeah.In fact, that's what I said.

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Hi, Malcolm. Brilliant question!Most would probably consider the "fallen/sinful" state to be a corruption of our original "good" nature.In short, we maintain some of God's qualities (intelligence, knowledge of good and evil, etc.), but not all of them.This is not necessarily my personal opinion, though.

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Hi, Teapots&Unicorns. Who's "Blue"?There are three members named "Blue____" active on this website (and I think a couple more inactive members), two of whom have posted on this thread.I tried changing my name a couple of times because of this (my aliases are listed in my signature), but I am too attached to the name "Bluejay" to abandon it, so I keep coming back to it.Edited by Bluejay, : fixed subtitle

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