Gen 1:26 "And God said 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness"
I can understand how some people might misconstrue the word image. It has many meanings.
But the word likeness has but a few: Copy...Portrait...Appearance...Semblance
The people who claim that we don't look like God, must think that God cannot communicate with us using clear language.
Why does God need anyone else to translate what He has so clearly communicated to us?
What make you so much smarter than God, that you have to take His words, and creat your own definition?
Rev 22:18 says "If any man shall add unto these things, God shal add unto him the plagues that are written in this book".
Every time someone says "But that is not what God meant", then they are adding their own thoughts and conceptions to the verses. And that is wrong.
2006-06-18 12:05:01 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Mikayla-I do not interpret, nor do I need an intrepretor. I read, word for word and I understand the English language. In His image and likeness needs no interpretation. It speaks for itself.
2006-06-19 10:58:31 · update #1
You are very right. When people cut things out of the Bible, they start with Rev 22:18. ; ) But almost everyone actually just chooses which things to follow, there are VERY few groups that obey everything in the Bible (keeping kosher, not eating shellfish, not allowing men to have long hair, treating their slaves well, etc.). Really it's all just a buffet.
2006-06-18 12:09:33 · answer #1 · answered by oldwhatshername 3 · 2⤊ 6⤋
That's just a bunch of hooey. If God communicated so "clearly" then why do we have manuscripts that differ on the same section? As far as interpreting, that's the only way we humans process information, and even groups that claim that they accept the Bible at face value, interpret, and make meaning out of what they read.
2006-06-18 19:16:39 · answer #2 · answered by keri gee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That quote is very likely a mistranslation of the original bible text, which was in Aramaic. There are few English words, from what I understand, which can be properly converted from Aramaic. For instance, in the original text there was another pronoun beside he/she or him/her used to refer to God, which the English language does not have. It was used to refer to a God who is a formless, genderless eternal energy source of life, the process of life who can take any form God wishes, but has no actual form at all. God is the form of everything, seen and unseen, understood and inexplicable. To think that we can possibly understand the vastness that is God is highly arrogant. Our limited human consciousness can in no way conceive of the magnitude that is God.
God isn't stupid...humans are!
2006-06-18 19:13:32 · answer #3 · answered by LindaLou 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Recognising that certain passages of the Bible can be intrepreted different ways is not saying that God is stupid. Especically when you are dealing with a text that was written in a different language--oftentimes things do not translate perfectly from one language to another.
Who are you to say your understanding is God's truth while everyone who disagrees is wrong?
2006-06-18 19:14:33 · answer #4 · answered by mikayla_starstuff 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 John 2:22
Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is the anti christ that denieth the Father and the Son
On the day of Judgement, they will be cast into hell with Satan.
1 John 2:11
But he that hateth his brother is in darkness and walketh in darkness and knowth not weither he goeth, because that darkenss hath blinded his eyes
2006-06-18 19:07:06 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
True.
Simply put, you are correct in saying this.
So many people are so skeptical that they must dispute everything in order to cause disruption.
Why do you think so many people have: Cancer, aids, or some other problem.
The cure is right in front of them.
2006-06-18 19:13:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont know, i have never heard that b4 but if i did it would hurt. i think it is because they have heard things from people or rumors about God, or they only think of the bad things (in their opinion) that God did so much they never got the time to think of the miracles he has preformed among many people. thats why its our jobs as christians to go around and speak the truth about God. thats mostly why He has sent us here. :-)
2006-06-18 19:13:38 · answer #7 · answered by Chris C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hasidic Jews wrote things to be taken personally in their own spiritual context for their life time at that moment. What else are you going to perceive something as? the way someone else intends? not really, unless it's drilled into your head and that's not right, is it?
2006-06-18 19:10:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
People think god is stupid for the same reason they think it exists in the first place.
2006-06-18 19:16:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
theyre not wrong to interpret the bible, it speaks to us as individuals and God seems dumb to some bc of His ppl, true believers and false ones alike. great question tho Amen
2006-06-18 19:10:47 · answer #10 · answered by Mr Spock 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋