Did I evolve from an ape or am I the image of God?

Question

Evolutionists believe they are the descendants of apes. I believe I was created in God's image. I'd rather associate with God the Father, than a hairy ape. What are your thoughts on this? Am I correct, or do you believe I could be wrong.

PLEASE - I did not asked to be insulted. I would like to have a decent, thought-provoking answer. Something that makes sense to everyone who is reading this.

Answer 1

Let us look at what the Bible says.

Genesis 1:26

* King James Version (KJV)
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.
Genesis 1:27

* King James Version (KJV)
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis 1:26-28 (in Context) Genesis 1

Genesis 5:3

* King James Version (KJV)
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth:

N.B Adam begat or have a son that look him and was after his own image.

Not there you have it. We are made in the image of God. I Thank God that am not ape or an animal.


Everything we want to know, we can find the answers in the Bible which has wisdom.

Brethren, God don't want us to be ignorant.

NOTE WE WERE CREATED AND NOT EVOLVED!!

Answer 2

All life resembles the rest of it, is not that the true image of God? The Oneness of life. Do you not see how closely apes and man resemble each other. Could you not be both made in God's image and cousin to an ape? They are not mutually exclusive. I know evolution is true. I can see it. There is nothing in any scientific theory which has yet to conflict with the idea of a super human being in possession of great power. Besides, if you are going to take the Bible that literally, you should reread Genesis. Non-Semitic people were made in the image of the Elohim (on the sixth day), Semitic people were made from dust by Yahweh Elohim (on the eighth day). Your qustion would then be, are you more like a living breathing beautiful ape, or a pile of mud?

Answer 3

If you don't even know what evolutionists believe, you are kind of hopeless, I am afraid. If you are created in the image of God, you make look like an ape because God may look like an ape. Noone knows.

By the way, just to enlighten you a bit, evolutionists believe that apes and man descended from the SAME ancestor.

Answer 4

It depends what you believe in. We know some of the facts from research. The animal kingdom was on the earth before man. Research has shown that we have descended from a creature very similar to an ape that no longer exists.

The difference between humans and the most developed form of ape is that humans have a soul. Although some apes can calculate and complete quite complicated tasks they can not think about thought itself. They can not feel guilty. They only react to their physical needs and instincts.

It seems possible that somewhere along the line a primitive ape-like creature acquired a soul and that gave it superiority over the rest of creation. How the creature was given a soul is something we can not prove one way or the other.

If we believe what is written in the bible then we have to ask ourselves where that knowledge came from. You have to believe in the existence of God and that he/she influenced what was written.

Its called faith. You either have it or you don't.

Answer 5

It's obvious to me that biblical texts are fragmentary, primitive and written and rewritten, out of the desert, the earliest attempts to explain life, the universe and everything. The New Testament is different altogether with it's more caring philosophy. It's obvious that Jesus was a great person who said very relevant things that we should all live by. However nothing in the Bible new or old makes much sense when you regard the world we live in and particularly it doesn't even come near explaining how the universe exists and why we are the way we are.

The Greeks and the Arabs however took time to look and observe, rather than creating rambling stories about who did what to who and how god felt about it, they attempted to describe and analyse what they saw. Through the Enlightenment the process continued and the scientific method which is not a belief but a way of sorting out and making sense of what we see, has yielded great benefits. At last magic that works, alchemy that changes things, explanations that are backed up by massive evidence and observation. A chance to actually change things, to break the wheel of illness, destruction and poverty that blighted our ancestors. The latest theories on evolutionary biology go a long way to explain why we are the way we are and even why we love, behave morally and believe in religion.

If you look at animals they obviously experience much of what we do, elephants grieve for their dead, monkeys have been trained to use sign language and can use ideas in much the same way we do. Whales and dolphins have extremely complex languages and complex social lives.

When you look into the night sky there are billions of stars, each a sun like ours, even with binoculars you can see that there are star clusters and that they go on for ever. With enlarged photographs and bigger telescopes you can see stars being born and destroyed and planets are found every where we look. In all those millions of real places surely there are other beings, why would they look like us, we are not in the centre of the universe, why should any supreme being look like us? I'm sorry but your evidence for the existence of a god is extremely thin and the evidence for him looking like us right down to the beard, sandals and long robe is impossible.

Answer 6

I don't think anybody knows for sure. After all people look so different that it would be difficult to say who God looked like exactly. I don't like the God theory because no one can prove it to me - sorry if that sounds shallow, but I don't. I also find it insulting that woman is supposed to have been made from a rib, and that whoever wrote the Bible saw it as a chance to blame everything on women because Eve started all man's problems! Mainly I think it is a bit arrogant to assume that God looks like a human. He or She may well be far superior to us. It is possible that we descended from apes, similar physiological features, ability to use tools etc but nothing has been satisfactorily proven, and not everything evolutionists say make sense - like everything being down to chance. I do see your point that it's pleasanter to associate with a human god than a hairy ape though.

Answer 7

I believe that God set the universe up so that humanity could evolve from the evolutionary common ancestor of the other apes. But still I believe God was actively directing evolution to produce humanity.

The first creation story parallels the scientific understanding of the formation of the Earth. It wasn't written by scientists and so the terminology is little odd.

1st day, Earth is formed, sun ignites.
2nd day, water vapour in the atmosphere condenses into clouds and rain falls, and evaporates off the molten surface, eventually puddles form.
3rd day, puddles become lakes, rivers and oceans, first life forms come about, plants start to colonise the land.
4th day, Earth's orbit stabilises and the atmosphere has cleared of volcanic debris, enough that the sun, moon and stars are visible. (life really starts to take off)
5th day, modern fish, then birds evolve. (The writers of the this story didn't know about dinosaurs, so never mentioned them).
6th day, modern animals evolve as the last ice age draws to an end, the common ancestor of apes and humans evolves. God manipulates the environment to encourage the development of the mind, e.g. bipedalism, an omnivorous diet, including fish.

Eventually humans evolve to the point where they can understand God's attempts to communicate with them. I believe that this was the point when the human species were give souls, but there's no way of proving this.

This is where the "made in God's image" part comes in, God has had us evolve so that we are sentient beings capable of reasoning, learning. The human mind is formed in the image of God, not our bodies.

Answer 8

You are evolved from a (common ancestor with the) ape and were created in love, since God is love for this particular religion: therefore both are true. Owing to the multiplicity of meanings, however, being created in God's image does not ensure that you are the image of God. 'Image' can mean many things, even apart from those which are lost in translation.

Answer 9

they dont believe you came from apes, evolutionists believe their was a COMMON ANCESTOR between apes and humans!!!

everyone could be wrong we dont know that is the truth, whether you believe in God or not.....i mean what if God the Father is a "hairy ape"??? what would you do if you found out that God is a hairy ape, what would everyone say then?? what if God is just made of dust..we dont know anything if you think about it....we are all just clueless, and we wont know til we die whether God is true or what He looks like.

Answer 10

I thought that evolution teaches that humans share a common ancestor with the apes, not that we are descended from them.
I firmly believe in God, however I can follow the evolutionary process in becoming " an image of God".