The Hebrew term translated as “image” (tselem and variations) has several other uses: a phantom, illusion, resemblance, a representative figure, an idol. Rather than humans created “in” the image of God, were humans perhaps created as the image of God? The Hebrew term “image” (tselem and variations) has several other uses: phantom, illusion, resemblance, a representative figure, an idol. Rather than humans created “in” the image of God, were humans perhaps created "as" the image of God?