Then God 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
heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every
creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. ~Genesis 1:26-27 (ESV)
"Man's intellectual gifts are further seen in his ability to design
things and then make them, to appreciate beauty, to compose glorious
music, to paint
pictures, to write, to count to large numbers and do mathematics,
to control and use energy for his own benefit (e.g. fire, electricity,
nuclear
power), to organize, to reason, to make decisions, to be
self-conscious, to laugh at himself, and to think abstractly. All this
behaviour is non-instinctive,
as distinct from animal behaviour, and as such it is of unlimited
variety...God endowed man with intellectual ability which was and is far superior
to that of any animal. Thus man was given a mind capable of hearing and
understanding
God's communication with him, emotions capable of responding to
God in love and devotion, and a will which enabled him to choose whether
or not to
obey God. Man was thus equipped, not only to 'love God and obey
Him for ever', but also to do God's work on earth" ~Russell M. Grigg