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Actually the biblical definition of image was to know both good and evil, i.e the capacity for free will. It had nothing to do with physical form.
God has no body, he has no gender. These are mortal things. Everything that exists in physical form is a creation of God. He is not part of His creation.
Oh right, so he made us in his image but he doesn't actually look like us. That makes perfect sense.
God looks like good. God is good.
Hmm.. the dudes that came up with that idea were pretty smart. It really does make sense. God is good.
It's a shame our image doesn't mean our physical image because i'd love to know how god deals with a dodgy back and stuff.
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Fenster, Im glad you understand this biblical babble.
To believe in a book of which no-one knows of it's origin or author/authors is pretty amazing.
I wonder then, did God want to give dinosuars first crack of the whip on this planet cos he thought they would be a worthy lifeform to inhabit the Earth ? Guess he thought fuck them they are shit, im gonna send a huge meteorite to wipe them out, then try again with this lifeform i'll call humans. Yea, thats it, that will work.
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On the contrary He is like us, or rather we are like Him. He is morally expressive, able to choose good and evil. He has free will. He appreciates beauty, knowledge, learning, love, kindness etc.
We are totally created in His image.
You are confused about the term 'image'. It' doesn't apply soley to physical characterisics.
And yes God does look like good. When we live in accordance to God's values we are truly reflecting His image. When we don't live in accordance to God's values we express evil which is an absence of God.
Darkness is an absence of light, thus God is not evil, but merely evil is the absence of good or God.
God's values are best expressed in the person of Jesus Christ. Interestingly regarding image, nowhere in the Bible does it give a single description of what Jesus looked like, other than to say the Romans pulled out his beard so we know he wasn't clean shaven.
You don't actually need to live by them for salvation. Jesus died to pay the price for your sins because humans are not capable of living a perfect life.
Living God's values for a Christian is because they love the character of their saviour and wish to emulate and live like Him, both to be pleasing to Him and also to find the true happiness that comes with living the way you were intended to live.
Imagine an eagle having free will and deciding to walk everywhere instead of soar majestically through the sky, it would be missing out on its true purpose and life.
Imagine a giraffe choosing to live off of grass, a very uncomfortable existence.
Well we humans were designed in God's image to behave in a certain way, to appreciate life in a certain way. We can refuse to do this as we have free will but it is very interesting to note that all of the ways humans defy God, and gain enjoyment apart from God result in them debasing themselves and acting far below what we are.
So we drink and take drugs which destroy our bodies and make us behave in ways that demean us. We become gluttens and slothful and our bodies become fat, out of shape and weak and sickly. We try to create new moralities and religions apart from God so that we don't need Him at all, or that He doesn't even exist. But take Him away and all we are left with is that are just shaven monkeys that ultimately evolved from slime and pond ooze and whose lives have no meaning or purpose at all.
That's why people choose to live by God's values. Not because of trying to work their way into heaven, it's a free gift you just have to accept it, but because they see themselves as more than evolved ooze and don't see the fun in being a grass eating giraffe or a ground hopping eagle.
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Straight from Jesus mouth is the stuff written in red. (I only mention that cause not everyone knows it Bilbo, I know you do mate.
This is just one hard hitting truth the Roman universal churches council forgot to omit.
Luke 11:52, Woe unto you, Lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves and them that were entering in ye hindered.
Luke:20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees and lawyers when the Kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said,
The Kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say lo it is here or lo it is there, for the Kingdom of God is within you.
Anyone who teaches you that you are required to externally seek answers or for Gods Kingdom, is against you progressing towards the truth and are against God.
That would be 99.7% of organized Religions.
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