God created man in His image?

Question

Scientific evidence and fossils have early man as apelike creatures and it has been proven that the first man was from Africa. Is the image of God that of an apelike creature? Are the people in Genesis apelike creatures? When did man's physical form change? When did the evolution of mankind begin. I want to fully grasp the concept of what I am reading in the Bible. Is Genesis chapter 5 when mans body began to change? In Genesis 6 it relates to giants. Is that dinosaurs? Men were apelike creatures during the jurassic period. Then all of a sudden there is Noah!!????!!!

Answer 1

Scientific evidence, huh? The same scientific evidence that found a brontasauras- which never existed. Some moron pieced together bones and we all learned about something that never existed. But, yeah you're right, some dork in a labcoat knows more than God. Good call.

Answer 2

Of course we are today, apelike creatures, aren't we? Man's physical form has never changed, we were created pretty much as we are. There is not and never will be any proof that we ever evolved. The scientific evidence you speak of are educated guesses and not very good ones either. There has never been even one fossil found that shows any evidence of any animal evolving. Animals have come and gone since the beginning of time and that continues today. We, humans, have caused some evolution to happen, if one wants to call it that. That is, we have bred different species of the same animal to create another animal. Donkey plus horse equals to mule. Dog breeds have been "created" by us. Same with cats. And this has gone on in nature to. So do think that a thousand years from now some scientist will find mule bones and state that he has the answer as to evolution? Surely that will be.

I watched a TV program on PBS the other day and they were talking about "new" evidence that showed that the western hemisphere was populated long before 13,000 years ago as has been taught for years. The "land bridge" theory has now changed to possibly humans came from Europe. And guess what I got out of that? It's all BS. Just like the theory of evolution, BS!!!!

Answer 3

Adam and Eve were the first known ancestors in Hebrew genealogy. Like most ancient texts, they described Adam as "formed from the earth" (cf. Deucalion, Cecrops, Phoroneus, Pelasgus, Adapu, etc.).

The Garden of Eden, as a location, actually existed in northern Iran, and was thought to be the ancestral home of the Hebrews.

The story of the Fall is allegorical, is partly based on the course of the sun through the solar year, and is meant to describe psychological and metaphysical principles that actually take place in present time. It shows us a process of individuation similar to that advocated by Jung.

Ape-men evolved into human beings hundreds of thousands of years before the historical Adam. But the Adam of Scripture is what the Jews called "Adam Kadmon," or the Primordial Man. He represents the human race as a whole. The story of the Fall also gives us a glimpse into the neolithic solar mythos that formed the heart of ancient religion.

The "giants" in Genesis were not actually giants at all. They were originally the "Cast Down Ones," but Jewish scholars translated the Hebrew word as "Giants" in the Greek, hoping to provide a sense of continuity between the Hebrew and Greek mythological accounts. The original 'giants' were the result of the mingling of the lineages of Cain (daughters of men) and Seth (sons of God). The "giants" were the Sumerians, who were actually formed from two different ethnic lineages. They are "the people of the shem [name]," which implies that they formed a name for themselves that was independent of their ancestry. It is this name that they try to re-establish after the Flood.

The "Image of God" is reason and free will. The "Likeness of God" is a state that occurs when pathos is converted into moral virtue.

Answer 4

In the scientific community's desperation to find man's origin they hastily concluded with inconclusive evidence - speculation -that man somehow evolved from an ape. Later when more technological testing became available the same bone that was used to verify the theory of evolution turned out to actually be a bone from a chicken. The theory of evolution has not been validated with conclusive evidence yet people believe it to be true...is that not the same as Christians believing in God without scientific evidence....When one looks at evolution verses creation, it takes even more faith to believe we used to be animals. Also , why have we not continued to evolve?

Answer 5

"Men were apelike creatures during the jurassic period"? You really dont have a clue, do you? Read the Bible and understand that God created man just as he is.

Answer 6

Man being made in God's image simply means that, like God, he has been given a rational intellect and a free will (which animals do not have)|

It does not mean that man *looks* like God in physical form|


God is an infinite being - the source of all other existence, though distinct from it - who is completely beyond any conceivable physical form or idea we can have of him - though our intelligence can reach an understanding of Him through *analogy,* in which He is described in comparison to created things| For example we can say that God is *good,* *true,* and *beautiful,* based upon a comparison with the good, the true, and the beautiful that we see in creation, but He is infinitely beyond these created things at the same time|




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Answer 7

There is actually no evidence that man evolved from the ape-like creatures. Fossils of footprints of modern humans have been found in layers deemed to be 3,600,000 years old. Giants were not necessarily what we think of as giants, but taller than the average person.

Answer 8

Well I think you're either except evolution or you accept the Bible. If you accept evolution you have no reason to believe the Bible that God created man in his own image. If you believe the Bible you have no reason to accept that man looked like apes in his appearance. So called scientific evidence really isn't all that concrete. So I would say take your pick which side of the fence you are on.

Answer 9

You did not understand the true meaning on the verses of the bible. The creation of man in Gods image means a man should be like God who is kind, fair good, and everything that is Godly.God did not say man should be look like God. Understand the difference? Do not just comment on something about God if you can not understand.

Answer 10

Evolutionists find a lower Jaw of an ape, and suddenly they make books of how he lived, married, what did he used for clothing, his speed, etc.. and create a relatives of families that leads a man to be a former frog or cockroach.. All based only on a piece of Bone !!

Evolution is in very slight things, we ceased Moving ears as we ceased dangers, we lost body hair and replaced it with cloth...

How could someone imagine that a lizard might be a doctor one day?

Man never existed with dinasour, it's a common mistake...