If God created the human "in His image", doesn't that mean that God is evil and full of faults?
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It's debated what exactly it means for humanity to be made "in God's image", but I think it includes being made with the capacity to make real and moral choices. An animal may be mean and vicious, but we don't ascribe moral culpability to it, and we don't call it "evil". Being made in God's image includes both the potential to follow him in righteousness, but also the possibility of spurning God, choosing to hate rather than love, and all other kinds of evil. But being made in God's image also means the possibility of being reconciled back to God, as we were created to be in right relationship with him.
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Adam and Eve were created in righteousness, but of their own free will chose to disobey God. They fell. The image of God was marred. They passed this sin nature onto their offspring, and by extension, all of humanity, excepting Jesus (and according to Catholics, in a special sense, Mary).
Thus we are like a painting that a vandal has slashed and splashed with paint.
The important point is that God did not sin. His image has not been marred. Jesus is that image:
Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature (Colossians 15:1)
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