If god made humanity in its image, should we not be perfect?

Question

The Bible stated that god created man in its image, and gave us a soul and free will. If that was so, then how come we are not perfect, like the god? If we are not perfect, and we supposedly derived from perfection, then is there actually a god at all?

Answer 1

Holy crap! Your question just literally reached out and grabbed my attention, because I was thinking the EXACT same thing just last night. I was wondering if that thought had ever occurred to anyone else, and now I know it has. I was thinking that if God made us in his image, then we should be perfect. But we're not perfect. So, if there even is a God, does that mean that he's not perfect like everyone says he is?

Answer 2

1 John 5:7
For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one...

1 John 5:8
And there are three that bear witness in earth the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.

If you really want to know and study this you will see they are all One God...

Jesus is Man

Isaiah 7:14, 9:6
Luke 1:31 2:6-7
Acts 17: 31
Galatians 4:4
Pilippians 2:7-8
1 Timothy 2:5
Hebrews 4:15 7:24-25


Jesus is God
Isaiah 7:14
Isaiah 9:6
Micah 5:2
John 1:1, 14
John 1:10
John 8:24, 58-59
11 Corinthians 5:19
1 Timothy 3:16

God is a Spirit

John 4:23-24
Acts 7:48-49
Acts 17:24-28
Psalm 139: 7-14
1 King 8:27
Jeremiah 23: 23-24

Answer 3

I am a scientist so I must answer in scientific terms; it is not physical image but the energy that inhabits our body that was created in God's image. Having been given free will, this energy can either be positive or negative depending on various factors such as the predisposition and development of said energy or "soul" as it may be. If so, then we can deduce that God may be a being composed of both positive and negative energy, neither one being greater or lesser than the other. Apparently then, God allows man to choose which direction one's polarity will flow towards. Furthermore, one may commit acts of a "negative" nature and still posess a positive polarity since perfection exists only because imperfection exists. Likewise, imperfection exists because perfection exists. One cannot exist without the other and so it is with everything that exists in the universe. There is dark and light, up and down, left and right, heat and cold, good and bad, high and low, happy and sad, true and false, and so on.

Answer 4

You're right. God did make man in his perfect image and with a free will, just like He had. Man chose to sin and corrupt the perfection.

There is not only a god, there is The God, and He arranged a solution to the problem. You'll find it in John 3:16.

Talk about undeserved grace..........

Answer 5

It all started in the Garden of Eden. Jehovah God made the first man Adam in his image. Being made in his image means that he possessed similar characteristics of God. He possessed similar character traits. Then when Adam and Even sinned, we all of their offspring lost the opportunity to be perfect. Thus "sinned entered into the world and death through sin..." So that is why we are not perfect right now. However, through Jesus death and resurrection, all men who put faith in Jesus and Jehovah will be able to enjoy peace on a paradise earth sometime in the near future. In that paradise we will eventually attain the perfection that our bodies were originally intended for. So in the future we will become perfect again.

Answer 6

The reason why we are not perfect is because Adam sinned and we became sinners. Romans 5: 12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: God created Adam in His image. Genesis 1: 26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. Genesis 1: 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. The problem is that when Adam sinned we are no longer in God's image but in the image of Adam. Genesis 5: 3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth:

Answer 7

First of all, we were made in God's image, not its. Second, because of our free will, we have chosen not to be perfect. Somewhere along the way we have chosen our own path which God did not intend for us to travel. The only way we can even come close to perfection, is to live in him. The only one that is perfect is God himself. Your question "Is there actually a God at all?" Yes, I believe there is and he is calling your name. Answer His calling, and you will understand this perfection that you seek.

Love ya!

Answer 8

God created the truth of us, perfect as God Itself. But we are free to discover ourselves, (our Self); freedom is the Nature of God, as is Love, and Peace. Man (humanity) is the self we made to hide our shame from God, when the mad thought of separation came into our mind. But there is no true separation. In truth, we are perfect.

Answer 9

If there is a god, and we are created in His image, then obviously he would even be imperfect. There is a theory that if God was real and created Earth, he probably moved along the universe, creating other worlds, and His will guides us all.

Answer 10

no one is perfect, but God!! We fell from grace when eve sinned. We are created from a perfect being--God. yet, the creation is apart from the creator. And yes, I believe there is a God. Can molecules build themselves into beings as complex as us? Common Logic says a creator designed everything.