The term ''dignity'' comes from latin word ''dignitas'' which means that something must be earned (respect, esteem) and thus implies the qualities that make someone worthy, which indirectly implies the existence of a condition of dignity. In acient times, this term was mostly related to political and social understanding, and also with other terms like ''reputation'', ''importance'', ''prestige''. A distance from this understanding is made up with Christianity, which derives the source of dignity from the personalistic anthropology of the embodied Christ and creation ''in the Gods image''. The claim that man is created as ''Imago Dei' (Genesis 1,26-27) has a general meaning because it applies equally to every human person. ''He is the image of God the invisible, the firstborn to every creature'' (Colossians 1,15). So, people created in the image of God, in the New Testament are called to became an image of Christ. For Christianity that is why human dignity is based on the fact of the embodiment and redemption in Jesus Christ. Thus the human resemblance to God extends especially in the moral and bioethical domain. Christ's reflection is set as a model and ideal, not only to Christians, but to every human being, because, for every one is given the dignity that demands to be treated with it, above all, responsibly and appropriately.