how can you say god say this "Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness …. (Gen. 1:26)" when in that statement alone gives out to the fallacy of Anthropomorphism
and for those who dont know what that is - "Anthropomorphism - means to attribute human shape or characteristics to a god, animal or inanimate thing. Such human characteristics would include intelligence, consciousness, emotions and values."
so how can you say god is a man or merciful and all that or is just because the bible says so?
2007-07-22 07:20:04 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
haha wow just noticed i spelled atheist wrong wow i need to learn how to type not spell :P
2007-07-22 07:22:45 · update #1
That quote also suggests more than one god... or at least he wasn't alone... mythology is fun!
2007-07-22 07:31:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
First, as a person who has a personal relationship with God, I have to say that God does have the same positive characteristics that men are endowed with because we are made in his image. They include intelligence, consciousness, emotion and values. Believe it or not, he even has a sense of humor. For those who do not believe in the existance or power of God, I realize that you are unable to understand this but it is true never the less. The fact that the Bible agrees with me (not I with it) is just another proof to me that the Bible is indeed inspired at least in part by God....I assume through a personal relationship with one or more of his creations (man).
Non believers seem to think that people become Christians because they read this book and decide to believe it. On the contrary, the relationship with God comes first...and that in turn leads us to the word...which is either verified or denied by God. Keep in mind that much of what the Bible says is interpreted by man...both at the writting and at the reading so we can not totally take every word literally...but can follow its concepts.
God calls us each in his own time. If we answer that call and seek Him in return, He will lead.
2007-07-22 14:33:29 · answer #2 · answered by Poohcat1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"how can you say god say this "Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness …. (Gen. 1:26)" when in that statement alone gives out to the fallacy of Anthropomorphism "
Okay. Strict logic without any emotive tendency here. Okay?
Why is it assumed that Anthrpomorphism in all cases are fallicies? Is it possible that there MIGHT be ONE or TWO examples of God and His relative resemblance to mankind as being similar?
Is the answer, " Always . . . . . NO!" ?
2007-07-22 14:38:37 · answer #3 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The soul is what was made in the image and likeness of God. The soul is immortal and has in it the power to know.
I can say that God became man to save us because of the hypostatic union, or because the natures of both God and man existed fully, not as some kind of hybrid, in Jesus Christ.
I can only call God merciful, angry, etc. insofar as that is how His actions appear to me. St. John Damescene talks about this in his work "An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith." God Himself is impassible.
2007-07-22 15:06:05 · answer #4 · answered by mle_trogdor2000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I would say that an image is not an exact copy of something else, but rather something that bears some resemblances to another thing. For example, each penny has an image of Abraham Lincoln on it, but that image cannot eat, breathe, sleep, etc., just like the real Abraham Lincoln could.
2007-07-22 19:15:18 · answer #5 · answered by Deof Movestofca 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why is anthropomorphism necessarily a fallacy?
We are in God's image so many attributes of man could also be made of God.
2007-07-22 14:25:12 · answer #6 · answered by Prof Fruitcake 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Men made gods in their images is the truth of the matter. Of course, many Egyptian gods were mixtures of men with various animals, e.g. Horus was a man with a hawk's head, and Thoth had a man's body with an ibis' head.
2007-07-22 14:26:22 · answer #7 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God is a spirit. When he said let us make man in our image it meant to give man a spirit also. This is why man can communicate with God. Notice Genesis 1:27 says
"So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them. "
So women are created in God's image also. By your reasoning God would have a male body and a female body. By my reasoning it just says that both the man and the woman had a spirit.
2007-07-22 14:32:19 · answer #8 · answered by ignoramus_the_great 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The Bible also says that no man has ever seen God. We come to understand God through His Creation, in particular the creation of man, because God endowed man with many of his characteristics (which is what it means when it says we are made in his image), through His written Word, the Bible (which shows us the character of God, among other things), and through his Son, Jesus, the Christ). Jesus said that if we had seen Him, then we had seen the Father. Jesus was both man and God. And if you study the life of the Christ (God made flesh), then you just may begin to understand the nature of this very difficult concept which you are grappling with.
Maggie
2007-07-22 14:27:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
We are made in His image. It is not the other way around. God is all-knowing, He hurts, He loves. He as those characteristics, and now, so do we.
2007-07-22 14:24:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Koran said: nothing looks like god.
2007-07-22 14:49:53 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋