if god created us in his image, does it means that he is flawed as well?

Answer 1

Christianity makes a mockery of God. At the same time that Christians claim to worship God as an omnipotent, omnipresent, omnibenevolent being, they make him out to be incompetent bumbler. Or worse. Simple forgiveness is beyond his capacities. God must "sacrifice himself to himself to change a rule he made himself!"

This is not only an absurdity, it is an essential absurdity. It is present in almost almost all forms of Christianity, and one can scarcely remove it and remain a Christian in anything but name. By definition, all Christians worship Christ - in some form - and most worship him as a saviour.

But what, exactly, is he saving us from? Though it varies from church to church, no matter what they call it, it's God himself. A hell created by God, a world fallen as a result of God's negligence, a separation from God imposed... by God.

"It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being."
- Dan Barker, Losing Faith in Faith Christianity certainly isn't the first religion to promote appeasement of its gods, and if it were merely another supernatural protection racket, it would be bad enough. Unfortunately, it doesn't stop there. Christians elevate appeasement to the realm of "personal relationship", transforming their religion into a true monstrosity.

This is the type of "relationship" that abused wives have with their husbands, that brainwashed hostages have with their captors. It is known in clinical circles as Stockholm Syndrome. Should it come as any surprise that the cries of the church, "The Bride of Christ" sound much like the cries of an abused wife attempting to protect her husband?

"He must beat me."
"I deserve it."
"He has no choice."
"It's for my own good."

These excuses don't work for human abusers, and they work even less well for God. For if God is omnipotent, he must have a choice. And if we are flawed, we are only flawed because that is the way he made us. (No excuses that we ruined his perfect creation. A truly perfect creation does not self-destruct.)

If the Christian God does exist - and I see no reason to believe that he does - he's not worthy of the name.

And that is the ultimate absurdity of Christianity.

Answer 2

No the image the Bible talks about is this. God is triune (that is what I believe. I am not trying to start anything). I am sure many have heard of God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit.

Since God is three in one, he made man the same way. We have our physical bodies or the flesh, the spirit (which is what allows us to commune with God's Spirit), and our souls (our thoughts and emotions).

That is where we are made in his image. He is not flawed. Adam who took a bite of the fruit that Eve gave him, gave man the flaw. His spirit died. Man became flawed through sin. God is, was, and always will be flawless.

Answer 3

Lol, this is like the oldest question in Christian theology: If God is perfect (Omniscient, all-knowing, all-good) then how could he create anything imperfect? A perfect being would know that creating imperfection would result in bad things, so why would he make it?

The oldest medieval trickery in the book is to say that God created everything perfect except Man which he gave Free Will. Of course Free Will is the biggest joke in the philosophical world. Here's an easy counter-argument for it: If humans are free, then why can't we decide to fly like Superman? The answer would be that God didn't make humans free in that sense, only free in the sense that he wanted us to have (within our physical limits, etc.), so in other words, He limited our freedom, which means that he had the choice of how free to make us, so why would he make us free enough to do harm to one another, but not free enough to be actually free in the most absolute sense? Seems kind of silly doesn't it?

The fact is, a perfect God can not possibly exist because the world is imperfect. Only perfection can arise from perfection, only imperfection from imperfection. Read the last couple books in "The Republic" by Plato for the first stated argument for this position; there are also tons of theological books on the problem, though I can't recall any specific authors, sorry.

Answer 4

Not necessarily so. To create in the image of something can mean that it only involves the physical form and not the "whole package", so to speak.

Although a creator cannot be perfect by default, and here is my reasoning behind that:

Humans and animals do things because there is an imbalance somewhere. Either we need to do things to survive (like find food) or we do things because we want the satisfaction they give (like playing a video game). We have imbalances like this because we are not perfect. A perfect bring has no imbalances. It has no need or desire to do anything, and so all it does is exist. As soon as a "perfect" being does anything else apart from existing, it has had an imbalance somewhere that has led it to do that thing.

Therefore, it is impossible for a god to be a creator and a perfect being.

Answer 5

No it does not mean he is flawed because he is not. Created in his image is our outer appearance but most of us....well a lot of us don't have the heart of God or the mind set. But he created us to look like what we call human beings and not creatures or animals.

Answer 6

God is not flesh and blood, as we are. Our bodies, and minds are flawed. Our soul/spirit is not flawed. This is our created image.
Look up image in the dictionary. Basically, a reflection.

Answer 7

Good question.

Not at all. We were made in God's image, not the other way around. We were perfect until sin occurred in the Garden of Eden. Everything since then has been as a result of sin.

We cannot live on earth in perfection, but God made a way for us to return to Heaven and live in perfection for eternity.

Be blessed today.

Answer 8

You ever look at yourself in a mirror that's inexpertly ground? The image is flawed. Does that mean YOU are flawed? Of course not.

We are the mirror's surface, and we grind ourselves through our exercize of free will. How good or bad an image we become is due to our own decisions in life.

Answer 9

God is made perfect. From Adam and Eve is where sins began. He made us in his image for us to know we are perfect in his eyes and he is there to forgive us when we do wrong and his is there to show us love and understanding. He never leaves us. We always leave. God has no flaws. We choose to make our own flaws.

Answer 10

God did make us in His image. He is not flawed in any way. Our only flaw is that we live in a fallen state. But, if we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior we will have eternal life. We will be restored to how we were.