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All three of you could be correct and here is why. Adam, in the day he was created, was in the image of God. What does that mean? In Genesis 5:1-2
>THIS is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
>Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
Adam and Eve in the day they were created were called Adam, since its like marriage. The wife takes the name of the husband in the marriage. So going back to Genesis 1:27-28
>So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
So God created Adam and Eve, calling them Adam and then gave the order in verse 28
>And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
He ordered them being a single unit, in the day they were created and called Adam, to be fruitful and multiply. That is what the image of God is, being able be fruitful and multiply as a single unit. God does not require a wife to reproduce/create things. Nor did Adam in the day they were created as God ordered Adam to be fruitful and multiply the very next verse. But shortly thereafter when Eve was taken out of Adam was Adam no longer able to be fruitful and multiply by himself like God can, therefore was no longer in the image of God. See Matthew 19:3-6
>The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
>And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
>And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
>Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.