While God placed Spiritual and Human beings alike in exulted positions over the rest of the creative order He also endowed them with an ability that is directly related to being created in His likeness.
Obviously God has a free will, not even the most staunch believers in the idea of everything being predestined would go so far as to say that God Himself is predestined to do anything.
We believe that our ability to act freely (free-will/ freedom of the will) is directly tied to being created in His image. Only spiritual beings and humans possess this quality. Being an image bearer of God is less an attribute (although we do recognize that this is what free will is) and more of an action.
With our God given free will we are to represent God by the way we live. We reflect God as His statues here on earth. This is why there was a law in the Old Testament that you must put to death the one who murders another image bearer, because they have killed God in effigy.
“‘Anyone who takes the life of a human being is to be put to death.”
Leviticus 24:17
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