2007-09-16 08:08:26 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The latter, for sure. What kind of a god would have genocidal tantrums?
2007-09-16 08:24:00 · answer #1 · answered by I'/\/\AZILLA2 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that humanity was created in God's Likeness, but that it its the internal 'spark', or soul that is like the deity.
Why would an omnipotent, omnipresent being with the power to generate the universe be limited by a form as simple as human beings, especially when this form only exists for us for a limited time, where as our eternal soul is the 'us' that will remain
If I had to guess, when the Deity created the universe, and on day six when it came time to make mankind, it endowed this creation with the spark of creativity that it used to generate the universe. thus our quest to understand and control the world around us.
and it is now, only because, the human mind cannot grasp a being so great and so powerful, when we visualize such a being, we cast the 'wise patriarch' in the role of deity.
Honestly, if you look at Michalangelo's Creation painting from the Sistine (sp?) Chapel, and compare his 'Christian God' with the standard depiction of Zeus one might have a hard time distinguishing between them if not veiwed in context.
at the birth of Christianity, The Roman Pantheon, which was essentially the greek Pantheon renamed, was the Majority Deity(ies) and those Gods were depicted as humanoid beings, so with those ideals in mind, it is not a stretch to assume that when the Bible was transcribed/edited/translated, and put to paper after an oral tradition that 'Likeness', becomes 'Image' and the human form God becomes the standard image,
This in tandem with the Role of Father in the Trinity, one could take an image of the Christ, and make it older, to assume an image of 'his' Father, and again we are back at the human form of God. while still having our souls being in his true image.
2007-09-16 15:40:28 · answer #2 · answered by janssen411 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We made God make us in our image, therefore, making God in our image (because we all know that the forces behind creating existence, the universe, and all life as we know it, looks exactly like a human being. It's just common sense)
2007-09-16 15:21:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are many "gods" who were created by people in their own image.
Psalms 115:4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. 5 They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: 6 They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: 7 They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. 8 They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.
But the true God of Heaven is the one who made us in his image.
Genesis 1:26 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.
When people ascribe to God attributes that come from their own imagination then even though they are talking about the God of Heaven they are at least in their own minds making a "god" in their own image.
2007-09-16 15:32:56 · answer #4 · answered by Martin S 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God made us in "His" image
2007-09-16 15:29:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
we image god to look like us, but our minds are like god
2007-09-16 15:18:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We made him like us.. why would God have a dick or pussy? I am not joking. Why would "he" need reprdutive organs? Why would God look like us if he made us? We are flawed animals..
2007-09-16 16:05:43 · answer #7 · answered by Freq, Grandparent of Y!A 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋