The term has its roots in Genesis 1:27, wherein "God created man in his own image. . ." This scriptural passage does not mean that God is in human form, but rather, that humans are in the image of ...

Then the Lord God ... man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. (Genesis 2:7) Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our ...

So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created ... The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.