Genesis / Question
To be made in God's image means humans are given unique dignity and a representative calling within creation. Genesis connects the image with God's blessing, human vocation, and responsibility to fill and steward the earth.
Genesis 1 places the image of God at the climax of the creation account. Male and female together receive this identity, and the next lines describe blessing and vocation. The passage is not mainly about appearance; it is about humanity's God-given place and purpose in the ordered world God made.
This answer supports many later Bible questions about human worth, work, justice, marriage, violence, and responsibility before God.
26God 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 birds of the sky, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
27God created man in his own image. In God`s image he created him; male and female he created them.