Perhaps Adam’s waking revelation of another life made from him tells us that in waking from death, we will be joined with another. Complete.
And perhaps the waking tells us another thing: If Adam is like God, his own sleep/death tells us that God will die and rise to be united with his bride, too.
1. To work and care for the world.
2. To name the things God puts before us.
3. To recognize the Image of God in other people and love them.
Authority to rule the animals, but not to rule or have dominion over other humans.
Ruling over one another is not the image.
Genesis 1:27 is declarative.
So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
Genesis 1:27 (NIV)
In Genesis 2, when God splits the woman from the man, the man marvels: “bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she is Isha (woman; literally ‘of man’), taken out of Ish (man).”
I think this must have echoed God’s heart in Genesis 1, making us from His image: “Spirit of my Spirit; Life of my Life; this is ha’Adam (the human), made in My Image.”
Adam says “She’s just like me!”
God says “They’re just like me!”
It sounds like adoration to me.