Is man truly made in the image of God?

Question

and if so how do they resemble each other?
does god for example have haemoglobin. It gets pretty silly when people say, he doesn't sneeze or need antibodies based on the logic that this is a weakness or sexual organs, excretory system because this is distasteful to ideas of holiness. If man is made in the image of God then all of these things should be holy shouldn't they.

God has hands back and face. And the likeness is mentioned when Adam and Eve are physically created. "Interestingly making man and woman in our image" would suggest a male and female side of God/Gods - the original is plural and contains masculine and feminine parts of the words, something that is missed in English

Answer 1

Yes. So now you know what God looks like.

Answer 2

God made man in the image of the trinity. The Father, son and holy Ghost. Note the words "In our 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.

So the image that God made man is was their spirit. Then God put that spirit into a body and man became a living person..

Genesis 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Then God saw that Adam was lonely and put him to sleep and took one of Adam's ribs and made Eve to be man's help meet.

Genesis 2:18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

Genesis 2:21-22 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
deep sleep Gen 15:12

22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
brought her Prov 18:22, Heb 13:4

So the image of God is spirit which is what man is made after, and then it is placed into the body and God breathes life into it.

It's really not that complicated if you study the word of God carefuly and dont' rush it.

Answer 3

Adam was made in the image of God...men where made in the image of Adam.

Genesis 5:2-4

2Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

3And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth:

4And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:



The true word here is likeness...not exact replica. While God in all His glory cannot be seen by man...there are instances where He appeared to people as the "Son of Man"...like when He stood with Shadrack, Mechack and Abidnego in the fires or any time you see the term "Angel of the Lord" it is either Him or one of the Princes (archangels). The arch angels won't accept worship though which is a major difference. You'll know by the fact that He's usually either accepting worship, forgiving sin, executing judgment, or speaking prophecy in these appearances. That and He is never treated as an ordinary visitor either...but then neither are the Angels. As a matter of fact..anytime the presence of God is among persons or people of the Bible..it is Jesus they are talking about. The world was created for Him, by Him and through Him...even in the Garden of Eden...with Adam..just as He was in the Garden of Gethseme...alone...facing Satan down to reverse things..here are very many scriptures that refer to our heirarchy in the scheme of things and while man has been given dominion over the earth and its contents (piss poor job we've done managing it) the Heavens and the Principalities of the Power of the Air, the earth itself and the weather, the elements and etc...we aren't privy to fully understand. If you are speaking of the physicallity of God..you are mistaken in trying to assign human attributes to Him that He gave to us for fleshly purposes. It is not these systems that He has designed which are unholy to Him..it is what we have done with them and continue to do with them..In the original knock out of all this we were perfect and didn't sneeze either, there probably were no germs, no death, excrement the way we know it now, the sexual organs weren't used for sex and etc. These things did not come until slowly after the fall. There's allot of indicators that desease came from eating much of the same stuff that is consumed in heathen villages today...bush meat, pigs, reptiles and animals not kept clean, fed or watered properly...so many contributing factors to name but the Deuteronomical and Levitical food laws, cleanliness laws and so forth...you'd be surprised perhaps at how spot on they are..and if people had followed them...we'll the Jews had they been obediant really would have been "the" superior race. So yeah..we were intended resemble God..but instead we resemble persons far removed from that fallen first man. Love in Christ, ~J~ <><

Answer 4

Man is made in the image of God in a couple of ways:

1. we have an intelligence that no other creature has, but that God has

2. We can Love in a way that no other creature can but that God does

3. Jesus was born a man, Jesus is the Image of God and so we look like Him in that way too. Jesus probably did sneeze, has hemoglobin and antibodies, and a penis. He was a normal human, along with still being God, in every way.

Answer 5

Image is the correct term. His body is glorified and perfected, ours is not. Blood is not necessary for his body since blood carries with it mortality. We are left with trying to not give in our appetites, but to treat our bodies as temples since some day they can be perfected as well.

Addendum: In "our" image can also refer to the Father and the Son. I do not believe in the concept of the Trinity being one person manifesting in 3 ways. I believe it is 3 beings working for 1 purpose. There were 300 sects fighting over defining themselves and if God was 3 separate beings or one. The Trinity decision was made. I don't believe it was divine revelation, but rather a political decision.

Answer 6

I think it's the other way around: God is made in the image of man. Keep in mind that the entire concept of God is a human construction. After all, as the folk wisdom suggests, if horses had Gods, wouldn't they look like horses? Nobody wants to be perceived as largely different from their God because that would imply a distance. Instead, there are minor differences such as sex organs, blood, etc. to keep us below "His" station. Otherwise, we might very well think that we're every bit as good as God.

~ FR

Answer 7

I'm an atheist and believe therefore all (godly) religions to be false teachings...in fact I believe all religions are false.
Wake up people the future is in your hands.
Lets go forewards not back.
Love and resoect one another, and logic and science, truly, and you won't need a Super-daddy to cling on to and tell you what to do.
Sorry for any offence caused, believers, but thankfully we're all (well most of us) entitled to our beliefs (unless we're mad or in a theocracy that is)...ENTITLED because of the seperation of church and state. So if you preach do so with caution, there's more concrete things than heaven and hell at stake.
As for the image business I think the catholics say spiritual, and the mormons material. Again I say outright implausible.


Luke.

Answer 8

Man is human,fleshly,designed to live on earth.God is spirit,living in unimaginable heavenly glory that no human can even approach.
(Ex.33:18-20;1Cor.15:50).
Man was made in God's image in that man was given the ability to exercise God's outstanding attributes - love,justice,power and wisdom - as well as other qualities.

Answer 9

I think it means that He made us able to think, discern right from wrong, and have a soul. In the beginning, man WAS perfect, but then man messed it all up. But yes, God says we are made in His image, so I guess we'd better start acting like it!

Answer 10

We are made in His image. We are not God! If we paint a picture of ourselves, is that picture exactly like us? Does it think and have the capablities that we do? It is our creation! We are God's creation. God came to us in the form of man, Jesus Christ....He can relate to us, because of that. Remembering that our bodies are temples of God....they should be treated with respect and care.

Answer 11

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.

Plain as day, do you read the scripture or do you just try to stir.