Genesis 1:26-28

Then God said, ‘Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.’
So God created humankind in his image,
   in the image of God he created them;
   male and female he created them.

God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.’

Comment:

There is no clear explanation, and several possible interpretations, for the use of the plural form in this passage from the first story of creation in Genesis. (This is the seven-days story; the Adam and Eve story doesn't begin until Genesis 2:4.) Metaphysically, we understand this first version of the story of creation, written as a priestly version sometime after the return from Babylonian exile, as a description of the birth of the creative process itself—the emergence, from the chaos of infinity, of a structured process by which the infinite potential can be claimed, imagined, defined, and experienced. 

The story was never intended to be a literal, accurate history of a specific event. The key point here is that "God created humankind in his image." So we are, in every way and with every power, an expression of the Divine. Unlike the rest of life, our relationship to God is unique. We are able to understand life and make creative choices that allow the very process of creation to continue to express through us.

Blessings!

Rev. Ed