Man: the glory of God?

For your information I've dealt with these questions in great
length in my "old" forest philosopher blogs. But specifically
with regard to recent questions let me continue. You say, you
don't "believe we are His glory or His image. That is Jesus
Christ." You then quote a number of verses (well known to me)
to the effect that Christ is the "express image", etc. Yes, of
course. But- and I really hate Bible 'bantying'!- we are to be
conformed to the image of Christ (Ro.8). And what then? Earlier
I have a post about the "glory" of God. There I say, among other
things, we usually don't know what we're talking about when we
say "glory". Forgive a little common sense, but "my Bible says",
"God is love". And since God is love, Jesus is the expression of
that love. The CROSS is God's glory. If we are "in Christ" and
are as loved as is Christ, then not to call us his "glory" is to
play games with the whole intent and meaning of Creation. You are
welcome to make a distinction between "the" image and "made in"
the image. That sounds a lot more like semantics and philosophy
than simple Bible reading. I prefer to stick with what the Bible
says. Christ is the UNCREATED image; he is God. We are his CREATED
image; we are creatures. Remember 3 important things: First,
Nowhere does the "Bible" say we're supposed to understand it all.
Second, our understanding of it is powerfully influenced by our
post-Reformation teachers; who too often pretend they do. Third,
we are fallen, and tend to read it like sinners. We distort it;
we argue; we insist on being right; we're terribly confused. Given
those facts, it's amazing we get any of it! If we're made in his
image- we ARE his image. Plain meaning of the English words. And
since we are his image- though affected by the Fall- WE "reflect" his
mind, his heart, his purpose. How else could he communicate with us
and expect us to have some idea what he's talking about? In that
sense, we are his "glory".Don't sell his image too short. We have
incredible potential- by his grace. In this knowledge we learn to
respect what it really means to be human. When we understand this we
will understand what it means to say that God is Human. It becomes
more and more obvious that this truth needs to be taught. This is
different from what people are told. But remember, even the Puritans
acknowledged, somewhat dimly, that "more light and truth will yet
break forth out of his holy Word". All I'm trying to do is give a
little "light" on a teaching of God's word that's been virtually
lost, especially since the Rome vs. Reformation crisis in Biblical
thinking.