Creationists; If God created Man in his image?PLEASE READ QUESTION BELOW!?

Question

How come we have bacteria in our stomach that help us digest food? Does this mean we have evolved to accept this, or bacteria have evolved to adapt to this environment OR does God have bacteria in his stomach?

I am trying to excite some creationists explanation against evolution here....please Christians do not insult my intelligence by giving me this 'God created Man in the image of his spirit' stuff !Give an arguement for Creationism or do not answer please!

I would like to add that I have not down graded any answer yet my question has been thumbs downed by a few .....why?
Does an intelligent question offend?

Answer 1

what if we ARE the bacteria in god's stomach?--wouldn't that be cool?!?!?!

Answer 2

Does God have a stomach? We don't know. When we read "in the image of God created he them", we have no idea how absolutely literal and anthropomorphic this statement is intended to be. Actually, isn't the bacteria in our intestines though really? I thought we had acid in our stomachs that break down our food for digestion. I have no idea what God is actually like, or even for certain if he actually exists, so I can't dogmatize on any of this. Your question reminds me of the little riddle I have heard: If God can do anything, can he create a rock that is too big for him to lift? Or... what happens when an irresistable force meets an immovable object?

God MAY have created man, and other life-forms, by a process of evolution. Even Darwin never said that God did not exist, that I am aware of. Certainly, many evolutionists since his day have been determined atheists. But not all, I don't believe.

Can the existence of God be proven? Some people think that it can. They cite several proofs to that effect, among them being that a creation demands a creator, just as a building or a machine requires a designer. This MAY be so, but I always become stuck wondering ... who then designed the designer, who created the creator. Then, IF God did have a Creator (which we are told he actually did NOT), who or what created God's Creator, and so on and on and on???? Like the above riddles, there appears to be no answer. I can't think of any anyhow!

Answer 3

This may be an example of evolution within a species. The existence of which is difficult to dispute. But I don't see it as addressing the issue of how does a bacterium evolve into a human. How do we go from finary fission to meiosis? Just looking at the mathematics of the evolutionary theory, don't you have to ask if there was enough time to go from single celled organisms into the wide variety of highly complex species we see today. Your question doesn't really address how we go from microevolution to macroevolution. That just doesn't seem intuitive. I mean we can observe evolution in action with species like moths where they change over time from primarily white to primarily black. But that is all evolution within a species. So while natural selection does seem obvious (your point with respect to the evolving bacterium), it seems limited more to action within a selected genotype.

So while I applaud the sincerity that prompts your question, I see it as more of a strawman argument than a genuine dispositve blow.

Points for your effort though!

Answer 4

Richard Lewontin,evolutionist, wrote that many scientists are willing to accept scientific claims that are against common sense "because we have a prior commitment to materialism," Many scientists refuse even to consider the possibility of an intellegent Designer because, as Lewontin writes, "we cannot allow a Divine foot in the door." In this regard, sociologist Rodney Stark is quoted in Scientific American as saying: "There's been 200 years of marketing that if you want to be a scientific person you've got to keep your mind free of the fetters of religion," He further notes that in the research universities "the religious people keep their mouths shut," while "irreligious people discriminate." According to Stark, 'there's a reward system to being irreligious in the upper echelons of the scientific community." You must believe that all creatures gradually evolved from a common ancestor, despite the fact that the fossil record strongly indicates that the major kinds of plants and animals appeared abruptly and did not evolve into other kinds, even over aeons of time. Does that type of belief sound as though it is based on fact or on a myth?

Answer 5

God is a spirit, a force of dynamic energy, but has a personaity and even emotions. He's the complete personification of love.1 John 4;8. So when he made physical creatures from the clay, it doesn't mean he could make them look like him. HOwever, being in his image is what makes us different from the animal creation. We do not live by instinct, we have consciences, morals, feelings, and appreciation for the things around us.

Answer 6

This came about as a result of the fall of Adam (which evolutionists do not believe in.) Prior to the fall of Adam, Adam and Eve's bodies could eat and digest food in a manner which we have not been told of. After the fall, the seeds of death were sown into their bodies and they became mortal. However we believe that Jesus Christ and God the Father both eat and digest food today. We know for instance that when Jesus was resurrected he ate fish and honeycomb, and he ascended into heaven with THAT glorified and resurrected body. Therefore we know that eating is not restricted to mortality. Why should it be?

Answer 7

Only if God ate.

Following on from your question:
God must be multi facetted for so many to be made from the one image.
Is the "image" two eyes, face, two ears, mouth, nose, ......... etc then Man isnt the only one to be created in the image.

What was the original colour of skin? Or did God's skin change colour or be mottled?

Addition:
Could image actually be imagination? Another mis-translation.

Answer 8

No one knows the answer to that. There is no evolution required for humans to have bacteria in the gut, neither are the bacteria required to evolve to live in the gut. You assume too much.

Answer 9

It is IMAGE....likeness... And remember......Adam was created to live forever.....no disease or sickness or bacteria....that came after the fall of man. Adam and Eve chose to defy God, that is when sin and death, etc. entered in. But it was not that way in the beginning when God created man in His IMAGE.

Answer 10

I don't think "image" literally means our appearance or physical bodies at all. I mean, God the Father is a spirit, so he doesn't a body like we do. I believe "image" means having certain traits like His: emotions, of course a spirit, a personality, the ability to think/reason...

Answer 11

Billions of discoveries by science will affirm the existence of God and not to deny Him. Of course He already gave you the capacity and freedom to accept or to deny, but at least you should learn to make choice with due knowledge and responsibility.

"KNOW thou that in the Bayan purification is regarded as the most acceptable means for attaining nearness unto God and as the most meritorious of all deeds. Thus purge thou thine ear that thou mayest hear no mention besides God, and purge thine eye that it behold naught except God, and thy conscience that it perceive naught other than God, and thy tongue that it proclaim nothing but God, and thy hand to write naught but the words of God, and thy knowledge that it comprehend naught except God, and thy heart that it entertain no wish save God, and in like manner purge all thine acts and thy pursuits that thou mayest be nurtured in the paradise of pure love, and perchance mayest attain the presence of Him Whom God shall make manifest, adorned with a purity which He highly cherisheth, and be sanctified from whosoever hath turned away from Him and doth not support Him. Thus shalt thou manifest a purity that shall profit thee."
(The Bab, Selections from the Writings of the Bab, p. 98)