Conformed to the Image of His Son

This is taken from an email I sent out on April 3rd, 2007:

Tonight in the temple, the phrase "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness" (Moses 2:26) stuck out to me for some reason. Isn't it it redundant to say image AND likeness? Does anyone have any ideas on that one? As I wondered about that redundancy, a scripture came to mind that I read a long time ago:

"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren" (Romans 8:28-30).

Perhaps when God said, "Let us make man in our own image," he was referring both to the creation of our bodies AND to the whole testing process we go through here on Earth. Not only are we made in His image physically, but through the trials and adversity that we pass through while we are here, we are made in His image spiritually.

Just a thought.