Do they mean we look like God, or do they mean we are good like God? Well, I see a lot of evil in the world, does that mean God is just as screwed up as we are? Why does he destroy creatures he created in his image? Is he destroying his own image? I don't understand.
2007-01-04 08:37:11 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If it is meant that we look like God, then why do people say our minds cannot imagine what God looks like.
2007-01-04 08:37:58 · update #1
We are a mere reflection of God. Our souls are tiny parts of what God looks like. He is perfection, we are man. Do we physically look like God? I have no idea, but that's part of the image I suppose.
God tells us in the Bible that we are unable to look upon His face because we would go insane and die. I believe it was Moses who was allowed to look at His retreating back only, and he fell down in shame as the light of God shone on him. He could see his own sin and was completely ashamed. His hair turned white from the experience.
I'd say that God is perfection and we cannot look upon such pureness, we'd go nuts.
2007-01-04 08:44:47 · answer #1 · answered by arewethereyet 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There have been some good perspectives here but let me try to lay it out from a different point of view.
When God created us we were good and not evil. But, like God we had the capacity to decide for ourselves. Part of the made in His image is our ability to create and that we have a soul/spirit. But, there is more to it that just this.
Where we are different from God is that we both have the ability to decide to do good or evil but God does not do evil. We do and continue to choose to.
You asked the question about God destroying creatures He made in His image. Does he choose to destroy them or do they choose to destroy themselves? He tells us what we need to be saved or not. We choose that path.
2007-01-04 16:55:14 · answer #2 · answered by Matt 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To be honest, we don't fully know what it means. We may look like him, and when he made Jesus, Jesus looks like us, human. But there is SO much more to God, that it is much more complicated. As God, he has the right to not show us him, and the bible alludes to there being reasons for this. We would be blinded, it would strike us dead, because of his glory, etc. Also, it simply, is not time. Have you ever heard of the verse, "we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is." Implying, we won't see him before it is time, or not ready to see him, etc. To your question, I think it means, in our nature, in love, in wanting justice, in wanting relationships, in enjoying life, and nature, and wondering what more there is to all that we do see. I have never said to someone we cannot imagine what he looks like. But I do often quote this verse...
"No eye has seen, no ear has heard, nor has entered into the heart of man, what God has in store for those that love him". We have NO idea what lies ahead, and we will have glorified bodies. We will have a much better understanding then. For now, we are sinful, and I am thankful for all of himself that he HAS revealed to us, so we can know about him, and how to make things right with him, etc. God is not as screwed up as we are. He didn't bring death to us, we chose it, once we sinned. People choose to go to hell, by not taking the way out of hell. No, he is not destroying his own image.
2007-01-04 16:47:15 · answer #3 · answered by oceansnsunsets 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Peace!
It is not physical likeness.
"Of all visible creatures only man is able to know and love his Creator. He is the only creature on earth that God has willed for its own sake, and he alone is called to share, by knowledge and love, in God's own life. It was for this end that he was created, and this is the fundamental reason for his dignity.
Being in the image of God the human individual possesses the dignity of a person, who is just not something, but someone. He is capable of self-knowledge, of self-possession and of freely giving himself and entering into communion with other persons. And he is called by grace to a covenant with his Creator, to offer him a response of faith and love no other creature can give in his stead."
2007-01-05 00:03:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are made in the spiritual image of God, not the physical image.
2007-01-04 16:50:08 · answer #5 · answered by hiscinders 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't mean physical appearance. It means that we can think and reason, something of which other animals are nearly incapabable. We are sentient and sapient.
These lines from Hamlet capture the spirit:
"In action, how like an angel / In apprehension, how like a god."
2007-01-04 16:47:15 · answer #6 · answered by Iris 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in gods image means 3 in 1 . people are this. mind body and soul. thats his image. death is nothing to god in the sense that it is to you. you actually think that there is something new under the sun?
2007-01-04 16:40:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He created us in His image, meaning our spirit man (the spirit that lives on the inside of us) which shadows(shaped as) our physical body. God is a spirit, and He is Creator of all...
2007-01-04 16:45:37 · answer #8 · answered by unknown 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means we have the same feelings as God. Love ,Jealousy etc
2007-01-04 16:41:06 · answer #9 · answered by Terry S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we are in his image in all that we feel. Only we are of the flesh and God is of spirit.
2007-01-04 16:40:33 · answer #10 · answered by ConstElation 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋