Won't type out all the good stuff in Gerhard, but I really appreciated what he said here:
In His Creation, God the Lord not only made the earth fruitful with various and multitudinous seeds, but He also sowed a noble Seed into the heart of the first two people - it was, of course, the image of God. From this Seed within their hearts there was supposed to sprout up and grow forth the noble fruits of divine knowledge, as well as perfect love for, and heartfelt praise to, God. Indeed, the fruit of eternal life was to grow forth from this Seed in their heart.
[One notes here the perfect potential, not the perfect actualization, from which humanity fell, and thus a bit of a connection with the distinction between image and likeness that the Cappadocians used to make the same point. AT times one hears that such thoughts are foreign to Western theological endeavor, but I think this is not the case.]
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