Are we really created in God's image as....creators?

Question

Is that the message. That we are allowed to create our world and our perception of the world?
Not the image referring to our physical structure?
Is religion necessary if we all know this to be true?

Answer 1

Yes. Absolutely.

As a matter of fact, even the book of Genesis in the Bible says that when God was "creating" Adam he said, "WE shall make him in OUR image."

And I don;t want to hear fom the Jesus folks that think that refers to the 'father-son and holy ghost.

Our collective consciousness ALL OF USTOGETHER make up what we call THE CREATOR. I may only be one tiny cell on a cell, but I am part of the whole.

Like being one hair on the head of "God", I experience my shampoos, graying, cutting, brushing, pulling and falling out as separate-but I am really PART OF the whole.

Answer 2

If you believe in The Word, yes we are created in God's image. That we are allowed to create our world and our perception of the world would be called "free will." Belief in the Word of God would be necessary to believe we are created in God's image. It is up to the interpretor to figure out the physical structure.

Answer 3

Image is the key word in that statement. It's like looking at our image in a mirror. It looks like us, but it doesn't make a sound and it can't act on it's own. Of course, that analogy falls short, because we can act on our own, but no we can't create our world. We can create our perception of the world, and we do this all the time.

Answer 4

No. It refers to our general appearance and God's dreams for us. Being created in God's image as creators is being incredibly arrogant and is taken the wrong way around.

The only reason we exist and can create is because God loves/supports/inhabits us. After all, in less than an hour, an asteroid could hit and wipe earth off the face of the universe. What'll we create then? It hasn't happened 'cause God doesn't want it to happen ... yet.

Answer 5

An excellent question! We are indeed made in God's image as creators which we manifest by creating God in the first place. There is something very existentially satisfying about this.

Answer 6

He created us as he wants us to be. Check the Bible for the way he wants us to be. We do create our own orbs and perceptions. We are created physically as He. In His image and likeness.

Answer 7

Interesting!

Answer 8

Ah, you sound like the Quantum Physics type. :D

If you're into the monotheistic point of view, I suppose you could say that.

Without God(s), there is no life. Without life, there are no God(s).

- 16 yo Pagan

Answer 9

yes, I think we are creators. Co-creators with God - we are all One. I think our authorship of our own lives is greater than we want to admit. So, no, I don't think religion is necessary - it is essentially about others telling us how to behave or think. 'To thine own self be true' I say.

Answer 10

In what sense is man made “in God’s image”?

In disclosing to his “master worker” the divine purpose to create mankind, God said: “Let us make man [’a·dham′] in our image, according to our likeness.” (Ge 1:26, 27; Pr 8:30, 31; compare Joh 1:1-3; Col 1:15-17.) Note that the Scriptures do not say that God created man in the image of a wild beast or of a domestic animal or of a fish. Man was made “in God’s image”; he was a “son of God.” (Lu 3:38) As to the form or shape of God’s body, “at no time has anyone beheld God.” (1Jo 4:12) No one on earth knows what God’s glorious, heavenly, spiritual body looks like, so we cannot liken man’s body to God’s body. “God is a Spirit.”—Joh 4:24.

Nevertheless, man is “in God’s image” in that he was created with moral qualities like those of God, namely, love and justice. (Compare Col 3:10.) He also has powers and wisdom above those of animals, so that he can appreciate the things that God enjoys and appreciates, such as beauty and the arts, speaking, reasoning, and similar processes of the mind and heart of which the animals are not capable. Moreover, man is capable of spirituality, of knowing and having communication with God. (1Co 2:11-16; Heb 12:9) For such reasons man was qualified to be God’s representative and to have in subjection the forms of creature life in the skies, on the earth, and in the sea.

Being a creation of God, man was originally perfect. (De 32:4) Accordingly, Adam could have bequeathed to his posterity human perfection and opportunity for eternal life on earth. (Isa 45:18) He and Eve were commanded: “Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it.” As their family increased, they would have cultivated and beautified the earth according to the design of their Creator.—Ge 1:28.

The apostle Paul, in discussing the relative positions of man and woman in God’s arrangement, says: “I want you to know that the head of every man is the Christ; in turn the head of a woman is the man; in turn the head of the Christ is God.” He then points out that a woman who prays or prophesies in the congregation with her head uncovered shames the one who is her head. To enforce his argument he then states: “For a man ought not to have his head covered, as he is God’s image and glory; but the woman is man’s glory.” Man was created first and for some time was alone, being in God’s image by himself. The woman was made from the man and was to be subject to the man, a situation unlike that of God, who is subject to no one. Man’s headship, nevertheless, comes under the headship of God and Christ.—1Co 11:3-7.