Man created in the image of God

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So man was created in the image of God.

Man is made up of the mind, body, and soul
God: the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Man’s mind in the image of God the Father
Man’s body in the image of God the Son
Man’s soul in the image of the Holy Spirit

Is this how it (man created in the image of God) should be understood?
 
I’ve never seen that before. This is what the Catechism says:

"God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them.’ Man occupies a unique place in creation: (I) he is in ‘in the image of God’; (II) in his own nature he unites the spiritual and material worlds; (III) he is created “male and female”; (IV) God established him in his friendship (CCC 355)

“Of all the visible creatures only man is ‘able to know and love his creator.’ He is ‘the only creature on earth that God has willed for its own sake,’ and he alone is called to share, by knowledge and love, in God’s own life.” (CCC356)

“Being in the image of God the human individual possesses the dignity of the person, who is not just something, but someone. He is capable of self-knowledge, of self-possession and of freely giving himself and entering into communion with other persons. And he is called by grace to a covenant with his Creator, to offer him a response of faith and love that no other creature can give in his stead.” (CCC 357)

“The human body shares in the dignity of ‘the image of God’: it is a human body precisely because it is animated by a spiritual soul, and it is the whole human person that is intended to become, in the body of Christ, a temple of the Spirit.” (CCC 364)

“Sometimes the soul is distinguished from the spirit: St. Paul for instance prays that God may sanctify his people “wholly,” with “spirit and soul and body” kept sound and blameless at the Lords’ coming. The Church teaches that this distinction does not introduce a duality into the soul. “Spirit” signified that from creation man is ordered to a supernatural end and that his soul can gratuitously be raised beyond all it deserves to communion with God.” (CCC 367)

“The spiritual tradition of the Church also emphasizes the *heart *, in the biblical sense of the depths of one’s being, where the person decides for or against God.” (CCC 368).

Also, in John Paul II’s Theology of the Body, he teaches that our bodies in themselves image God because they are created for communion (male and female in marriage), which expresses the communion of the three Persons of the Holy Trinity.
 
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