If God created man in his own image, does that mean that man actually created God?

Question

Take it easy on this one Tigers, not trying to start a religious fest here, just a question!

Answer 1

Um. No. That's like saying if you make a doll to look like you, that the doll also created you.

Answer 2

Hi Mark,

I don't understand your logic, and how your conclusion relates to your first statement. You might want to think through it some more or explain it in more detail as many of us are confused.

If God made us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
— Voltaire

What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?
— Friedrich Nietzsche, (1844-1900)

Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by (the) dozens.
— Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, (1533-1592)

What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man's imagination?
— Joseph Campbell, (1904-1987)

Answer 3

How does that make sense? God created man in hes own image means that God created man. How does that mean that man created God?

Answer 4

Let me return a question to answer yours. How can the creation make something before it is created?

I'd have to say no, that man did not create God. Man has warped what his image of God is, but the Creator is still unchanged by this viewpoint.

Good luck!

Answer 5

To be created in God's image means this simple little thing>
We have in a smaller way some of his attributes which are
Love, Justice, Wisdom, Power. It a sad thing that mankind misuses these qualities to his own injury. To stop doing this requires that we train ourselves to listen to his instructions for he knows better what is good for us? or do you think that we have done a pretty good job of ruling ourselves in the past 6000 years? The first thing that you need to do is read John 17:3.
If you are interested in what his plans are for the earth and man feel free to ask?
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Answer 6

your reasoning is faulty here.....let me give you another similar phrase and see if you can see the problem with what you have asked.....

If no two human beings are alike, then which one of us looks like God? or.....
if man created God, then which man did it, and what did he look like?

the problem you have is with the word "image". You have no doubt heard the phrase, "he is the spitting image of his father", physically the two are easily told apart, so what makes him "the spitting image"? His attitude, his mannerisms, his behaviors, which copy his father's attitudes mannerisms and behaviors. This is the "image" the son fulfills. One of spirit, not physicality.
Man percieves god in terms of his own thinking, so naturally they think of God as humanlike, anthropomorphic, with similar feelings and lines of reasoning. It seems impossible for a great many people to conceive of a deity that might be a great deal more than that. Man indeed created his own perception of God, but did not create God. I am of the opinion that "God" for want of a better word or name, is far more than most will give credit for. That such a force, being, "God", does exist is in my mind beyond question, but I will not be so arrogant as to try to limit such a idea to just what I can understand and percieve. The arrogance of the religious and atheist alike continues to astonish me.

Answer 7

it's quite possible. Man needs a way to explain things, and the only logical thing is to have some deity to do just that. This is even means by the way we look, I like to think that there is the possibility that a supreme being exists and that there is at the same time a possibility that one doesn't but hey what do I know. If I had the secrets to the universe, clearly I wouldn't be typing this.

Answer 8

duuhhh


obvious innit fella man invented god to answer all the questions we can't answer and as a way of controlling society. The people that invented the story were very clever people. Even to this day there are still people that believe the same story.Even now people are prepared to die for their religion and have heated rantings over the internet defending their religion.If there is an after life those that started will be p#ss#ng themselves looking down-- though that kinda doesnt make sense

Answer 9

That's absurd! God created man, so how then could man create God? God has always existed. Man was not His first creation. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Go in peace.

Answer 10

No. Christians say that phrase, meaning that we have free will and the ability to love, like God. Christians also believe that God created man to have a "loving relationship" with Him. That sounds a little perverted in a sense, but it doesn't mean anything sexual. lol Knowing this, God needed to make something in His own image in order to have a relationship.

Answer 11

No. Your questions answers itself. If God created man and created him in His own image, then how could man create God?