View Full Version : What does it mean to be created in God's image?
slydevl
05-06-04, 04:43 PM
Do you take that literally and think we look like God or does that mean something else to you?
I think it refers to our soul.
Look in a mirror and you will see an image of yourself. does that image have the ability's that you do ?
Miss tery
05-08-04, 09:07 AM
I find it continually entertaining that Christians elevate their religion over all the others. But then the other religions do the same so I suppose turnabout is fair play.
I find it continually entertaining that Christians elevate their religion over all the others. But then the other religions do the same so I suppose turnabout is fair play.so therefore the entire point of your post was ??? if not inflammatory. especially since it flies against the very roots of sociology. why would someone be Chrisitian or Muslim or anything if they didnt think it was the way?
I find it continually entertaining that Christians elevate their religion over all the others. But then the other religions do the same so I suppose turnabout is fair play.
Substitute the word belief for religion in the above sentence and you do the same thing. Not much of a point there. It's called having an opinion.
slydevl
05-09-04, 09:43 PM
I find it continually entertaining that Christians elevate their religion over all the others. But then the other religions do the same so I suppose turnabout is fair play.
I you don't want to respond to the initial post, please stay out. Thank you. You are more than welcome to start your own thread.
Miss tery
05-09-04, 10:02 PM
Actually I think man created god in his image. Just look at all the blue-eyed blonde-haired Jesus portraits. Lots of folks looked like that 2000 years ago in the middle east.
Actually I think man created god in his image. Just look at all the blue-eyed blonde-haired Jesus portraits. Lots of folks looked like that 2000 years ago in the middle east.
of course today we all realize that jesus looked like ned the wino.
slydevl
05-10-04, 09:37 AM
Actually I think man created god in his image. Just look at all the blue-eyed blonde-haired Jesus portraits. Lots of folks looked like that 2000 years ago in the middle east.
Someone's mental image of God is really insignificant to their relationship with Him.
Someone's mental image of God is really insignificant to their relationship with Him.
How true! Relationship is the key!
hasbeen99
05-10-04, 07:16 PM
Do you take that literally and think we look like God or does that mean something else to you?
I believe God the Father is a spiritual being, and therefore has no physical form, per se. But I agree with Rob in that the likeness we have to God is in the soul He gave each and every one of us.
hasbeen99
05-10-04, 07:19 PM
I you don't want to respond to the initial post, please stay out. Thank you. You are more than welcome to start your own thread.
Agreed.
Superfluous_Nut
05-10-04, 07:48 PM
probably the intent of the phrase is to say that god is "knowable" in the sense that humans and he share many traits.
it's sorta like the egyptian or greek or roman gods who were very anthropomorphic -- they got mad, or sad, or jealous, etc. their stories resonated because they were all based on some sort of human-accessible idea as opposed to something that only a god would understand.
to say we're created in god's image is to say that we are similar to him so we can understand how we affect him and how he sees us. with the caveat that he works in mysterious ways, of course.
Do you take that literally and think we look like God or does that mean something else to you?
I believe that we are triune beings like God as one similarity:
God = Father, Son, Spirit
Man = spirit, soul, body
having said that I'd disagree with Rob and HB that our similarity is in our souls but is infact in our spirits
hasbeen99
05-24-05, 03:28 PM
I believe that we are triune beings like God as one similarity:
God = Father, Son, Spirit
Man = spirit, soul, body
having said that I'd disagree with Rob and HB that our similarity is in our souls but is infact in our spirits
How do you define "spirit" and "soul"?
I believe that the soul is comprised of our mind, will and emotions
I think the spirit is the real you or the inner man.
hasbeen99
05-24-05, 03:37 PM
I believe that the soul is comprised of our mind, will and emotions
I think the spirit is the real you or the inner man.
So what, by your definition, differentiates mind, will, and emotion from the inner man?
sdplusbeauty
05-24-05, 03:46 PM
Do you take that literally and think we look like God or does that mean something else to you?
Out of all the creatures in the world, we are human.. God is like us, we look like Him. He could have made everything human and no other living creatures, but we are like Him.
So what, by your definition, differentiates mind, will, and emotion from the inner man?
Our mind is our thoughts which can be different from God's, our will is our decision making ability which is ours alone and seperate from God's, and our emotions are ours which can be all screwed up for a bunch of different reasons.
Our inner man(spirits) are what is recreated in the image of Christ when we are born again and I believe it is the part of us that is perfect and pure once saved.
hasbeen99
05-24-05, 04:35 PM
Our mind is our thoughts which can be different from God's, our will is our decision making ability which is ours alone and seperate from God's, and our emotions are ours which can be all screwed up for a bunch of different reasons.
Our inner man(spirits) are what is recreated in the image of Christ when we are born again and I believe it is the part of us that is perfect and pure once saved.
I wouldn't disagree with that. Sounds a lot like a book I read earlier this year -- Renovation of the Heart by Dallas Willard (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1576832961/qid=1116966389/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/104-8547823-6779147?v=glance&s=books&n=507846).
I think we're saying the same thing, just swapping the terms 'spirit' and 'soul'.
I used to think soul and spirit were the same, then after reading Heb 4:12(I think that's it), where it speaks of the word of God being sharper than any 2-edged sword able to divide soul and spirit, joints and marrow etc. and 1Thes. 5:23 where Paul prays that we be preserved blameless and whole in spirit, soul, and body at the coming of the Lord, I tried to figure out the difference. I've heard it said that we are a spirit, who has a soul, and lives in a body. It's helped alot in my understanding of scripture, but has also created more questions. The "heart" for instance. In some instances it seems to refer to our spirit and other times it seems to refer to our soul. And as I understand it, the heart refers to our soul and spirit combined. I've not heard of the book you mentioned but it sounds like it may be what I'm looking for. Thanks!
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