I last posted a question inquiring if a god created us in its image, should we not be perfect. The answers were surprisingly unoriginal, except for my best choice of course, for they failed to further extrapolate and justify their answers. This follow-up question further explores the basis of a god, and its existence, through belief in the being.
2006-06-20 16:21:38 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
mini - god?? . .
nah . . .j/k
we r his chess pieces
2006-06-20 16:24:56 · answer #1 · answered by wunderful2nite 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
First of all God is not a being. Nothing like you or I. God is. Now if God had an image of man, it would be like an artist having an image of a painting. Something that does not exist and is inexplicably beautiful like the rest of creation, which was also created in his image.
Why were we created? This is the conundrum of us all. No one answer can satisfy all of us. Let us say that we have been given options to exercise. Choices. God wants us to make choices and to satisfy our reach for the goodness that is in us and around us. If we do not satisfy this reach we suffer. There is no reason for this suffering, no purpose to it at all. We are meant to find Joy in this life, a Joy without end. That is the goodness of life. This is to be shared. It is in the sharing of Joy that we find God. Once found, we know his image of us is real. That in God's image we are beautiful and whole. Broken-ness and incompleteness are the image of man by man. God has nothing to do with it.
Curtis
2006-06-20 16:43:28 · answer #2 · answered by talismanspeaks 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God was lonely and created Man. We are not perfect, as we broke his laws (re: Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden) and lack of perfection with its accompanying pain and hardships at times, is our behavior management. Reading The Bible will answer your questions. The Word of God doesn't have to be justified. It is accepted on faith.
2006-06-20 16:29:31 · answer #3 · answered by Sherry K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God was not lonely nor did he wish company, he had angels and his son, Jesus. He decided it was time to bring earth to life and let flourish, u should know the routine schedule God took:
1st day- light; "and god say it was all good"
2nd- god created the sky; therefore seperating air and water
3rd- god commanded the land to come up from earth
4th- Created the star, including the sun; made day+night
5th- animals and plants
6th- Humans; TO RULE OVER THE ANIMALS
"Now we will make humans, And they will be like us. We will let them RULE the fish in the ocean, the birds in the sky, and every animal on earth."
-Genesis 1:26
and, in case u didn't know, Genesis means 'Beggining'.
2006-06-20 16:42:09 · answer #4 · answered by em. :] 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God created the universe for the earth, the earth for man, and man to have dominion (rule) over the works of HIS hands. Man in his redeemed state has a definate purpose to reconcile GOD and man.
2006-06-22 11:30:16 · answer #5 · answered by khayyam s 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You want a scientific explanation for what God is all about. However, as a species we do not do well on discussing God intelligently and that is why you did not like 99 percent of the other answers concerning your other discussion. We humans can be so smart till it comes to our religious Faith and then we slide back on the evolutionary scale about a thousand or more years. I have seen people with Doctors degrees talk so intelligent and insightful till the subject of God is brought up and then they slide back to an infant stage of discussion. I am a man of God but I am not afraid to discuss him/her in an intelligent manor because my God wants me to be smart and explore and he/she does not want me living and thinking in the Dark Ages. In my opinion God is curious (like we humans are as well) and created us to entertain himself. Not in a sick power trip way but sort of like a paternal thing. As we grow and learn more he watches us with pride and knows he has done well. However, when we blow ourselves and others up, he gets disgusted and angry like we would with one of our children if they misbehaved. About perfection, God is not going to just wave his hand and let us be perfect without having to work for it and earn the right to get there. Just like a small child must learn the bumps of life as he or she gets older and even then nothing is guaranteed.
These answers are entirely my opinion and I do not clam any church, so I am not speaking for any faith other than what I feel.
2006-06-20 17:14:52 · answer #6 · answered by Shellback 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God created us to glorify Him and become more like Christ. God is not an it He is a He. We are not perfect because image and action are two totally different things.
2006-06-20 16:34:47 · answer #7 · answered by †ServantofGod† 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To error is human there for God is a human
Why he made some of us like me and some of the others like you but even I can't figure out Red heads what was he thinking
2006-06-20 16:29:55 · answer #8 · answered by stillhappy89 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are images of God, rather than made in the image of God.
Our purposes may be different, but the purpose of life is, I think, learning how to die.
2006-06-20 16:26:09 · answer #9 · answered by unseen_force_22 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are not allowed to even think of an IMAGE for God, then how can you believe you are the Image of God, RUBBISH.
2006-06-20 16:26:31 · answer #10 · answered by byefareed 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
genesis 1:26 Then God said,"Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.
We were created to rule over the earth and everything in it.
2006-06-20 16:38:02 · answer #11 · answered by James C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋