Created in God's Image

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Adam and Eve were created in God's image, but can humanity still claim this status? Adam and Eve were innocent, without fault, and very good. We all fall short of God's glory, but Adam and Eve knew it well. What if Jesus came to show us how to recapture that innocence, how to be recreated in God's image? 2 Corinthians 4: 1-10
 
The first adam put us to sleep, seperated ourcellves from our in his image G!d nature.

The second adam (Jesus) came to wake us up.

But so did Moses, and Buddha, and Mohamed, and Lao, and the Bab, and Confucious, and who knows how many more it will take before we get it....
 
Adam created "self" and "I" and "ego"... all of which are probably lacking in G!d's consciousness. The shadow (lack of light) entered this way and continues to enter this way. If we return to the light, that of G!d within, we return to the G!d/d!ss in wholiness and at-one-ment.

(sorry for the preachiness, but that is my belief).
 
I would be surprised if this isn't a false translation.

Imagination would be more fitting, although to say "this image in my head" is valid too, we are an expression of his creativity.
 
Adam created "self" and "I" and "ego"... all of which are probably lacking in G!d's consciousness. The shadow (lack of light) entered this way and continues to enter this way. If we return to the light, that of G!d within, we return to the G!d/d!ss in wholiness and at-one-ment.

(sorry for the preachiness, but that is my belief).

By saying God/dess you infer God is male and has a counterpart which is female.

God is one, you have applied a duality.
 
I dunno. Corinthians has a long probable existence. It may be a compilation of letters. But they are probably letters from Paul (or at least 95% or so), were known to exist a the time of the Earliest Church Fathers, and likely datefrom the first century. Not likely they are false or poorly translated, IMHO.
 
Scripture tells us what Gods image is and man is not in Gods image.The word of the Lord is Gods image and spirit.


"Wisdom is the spotless mirror of the power of God ---the image of Gods goodness."BK of Wisdom

"God is spirit and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth".

"The words I spoke to you are spirit and life".

I am the spirit the power the will and the image of God.
I am the way the truth and the life no one comes to the Lord except by me.

It is written;

The mountain of the Lords house shall be established as the highest mountain and raised above the hills. All nations shall stream toward it;

The Lords glory will be shelter and protection for all His people.

The Lord of hosts shall be exalted by his judgment, and God the Holy shall be shown holy by his justice.
 
God was created in our image.

Gods were created in two ways. One was to merge the thousands of spirits that invisibly moved things into a single One God. In that way, it demanded some personalization of that God. God may have been invented by ancient shamans and War Lords. Naturally, their template was the personality and appearance of a Neolithic or Bronze Age warlord.

As a result, the Celtic God Dagda was a giant human who had sex with a human virgin to produce Lugh the Sun God. Each had human characteristics. Dagda even had a grandson, Cuchullain, after his son Lugh impregnated another human virgin.

Then we see this echoed in Zeus, Ahura Mazda, Brahma, Jupiter, Odin, JHWY, and the post-deification Jesus. Allah is the only one that I think is not anthropomorphised any more than having magical powers and seeks vengeance. His appearance is never described. This makes Islam the only real Monotheism that is in fact Theism. All of the others are merely Idolatries.

The most obvious aspect of Godly anthropomorphism is the myth of a cosmic creator eternally old, impregnating a human. That implies that God is genetically more than 99.9% DNA compatible with humans.

God exists but not as some Galactic or Cosmos conscious being. God exists in the minds of believers. He is male because those who created him as a mental concept designed him on their local warlords or kings. He exists in a complex of brain circuits heavily concentrated in the Limbic Lobe but with multiple connections to many other brain association areas. Most Christians have a mental concept of Jesus. This Jesus can be seen by the believe in hallucinations such as Temporal Lobe Seizures (Partial Complex). We see different Jesus’ dependent on our individual circuitry. Europeans and Americans see a North European blond haired or brown haired, blue eyes and Nordic facial features. Ethiopians see him as a black man with dark brown eyes. A few see him as a Palestinian Semite/Jew, short and stocky, tan skinned, semitic nose, black hair (probably curly).
 
Gatekeeper said:
What if Jesus came to show us how to recapture that innocence, how to be recreated in God's image? 2 Corinthians 4: 1-10

I think he did exactly that. By (somehow) emptying himself of self, he became theomorphic.

God was created in our image ...

"If God created us in his image, we have returned him the favor." (Voltaire)

This is also convincing.

Alan Watts, a popular (and populist) philosopher of my youth, once said something to the effect that all human concepts of God, no matter how elevated, are by definition potentially tainted with (and by) idolatry. Thus the paradox of Lao-Tsu: "the Tao which can be spoken of is not the Tao."

Aldous Huxley addressed Watts's issue by writing, in his Doors of Perception, that, on one glorious day, after having taken mescalin, "the percept," in his case, "swallowed up the concept." From the standpoint of spiritual experience, I consider that an insightful comment.
 
God was created in our image.

Gods were created in two ways. One was to merge the thousands of spirits that invisibly moved things into a single One God. In that way, it demanded some personalization of that God. God may have been invented by ancient shamans and War Lords. Naturally, their template was the personality and appearance of a Neolithic or Bronze Age warlord.

As a result, the Celtic God Dagda was a giant human who had sex with a human virgin to produce Lugh the Sun God. Each had human characteristics. Dagda even had a grandson, Cuchullain, after his son Lugh impregnated another human virgin.

Then we see this echoed in Zeus, Ahura Mazda, Brahma, Jupiter, Odin, JHWY, and the post-deification Jesus. Allah is the only one that I think is not anthropomorphised any more than having magical powers and seeks vengeance. His appearance is never described. This makes Islam the only real Monotheism that is in fact Theism. All of the others are merely Idolatries.

The most obvious aspect of Godly anthropomorphism is the myth of a cosmic creator eternally old, impregnating a human. That implies that God is genetically more than 99.9% DNA compatible with humans.

God exists but not as some Galactic or Cosmos conscious being. God exists in the minds of believers. He is male because those who created him as a mental concept designed him on their local warlords or kings. He exists in a complex of brain circuits heavily concentrated in the Limbic Lobe but with multiple connections to many other brain association areas. Most Christians have a mental concept of Jesus. This Jesus can be seen by the believe in hallucinations such as Temporal Lobe Seizures (Partial Complex). We see different Jesus’ dependent on our individual circuitry. Europeans and Americans see a North European blond haired or brown haired, blue eyes and Nordic facial features. Ethiopians see him as a black man with dark brown eyes. A few see him as a Palestinian Semite/Jew, short and stocky, tan skinned, semitic nose, black hair (probably curly).

The literal creator(s) is two one male and one female who are one and also three even though two as well. Just like people have children they originally gave birth to those like them. Each GOD has only one opposite , a GODDESS and for infinite life its the only way it works. Its not a pick and choose there is a literal identity and since each ones opposite really is the other half that makes each whole , there really wouldn't be any other choice because its the ONLY REAL TRUE LOVE. This works for human beings as well. This is why scripture texts refers to this as marriage.....its talking literally.
 
Adam and Eve were created in God's image, but can humanity still claim this status?
Yes. "What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder."
Mark 10:9.

Adam and Eve were innocent, without fault, and very good. We all fall short of God's glory, but Adam and Eve knew it well.
But they did not participate in God's glory — which is what Christ offers.

God bless,

Thomas
 
Yes. "What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder."
Mark 10:9.


But they did not participate in God's glory — which is what Christ offers.

God bless,

Thomas
The thing is finding GOD inside ones self as a man. When one finds its true opposite the man will grow in compassion, kindness ect and its true love. If it responds in an opposing way god didnt bring it together but its really separating things and causing a block. Everyone knows same sex doesnt go together and even though two opposites produce life it doesnt mean two go together just because they are opposite sexes. Food for thought.
 
I think you need to step back and realise that most people don't have the same opinions as you. In most things.

I think most do its a small percentage of people that dont share my views . The scriptures are clear on this matter. To me its not about accusation but education as to why it doesnt work that way.
 
And I think this is quite sad, you believe you know many things, but I see no signs of worldliness. How much have you travelled, how often do you sit don and listen to people from other cultures? When you write here, I read a preacher, I have never seen you listen to anyone else. You is closed because you believe you know better then everyone here. And this is why nothing you say have any value for me.

Please don't answer my questions, I'm not interested. I just want you to hear from someone who knows none who believe what you do. You are a minority where I'm from, as you are in most places on this sphere.
 
The thing is finding GOD inside ones self as a man.
Looking for God in oneself is, too often, creating God in one's own image.

Looking for oneself in God, it seems to me, puts one on the right footing.

God bless,

Thomas
 
Looking for God in oneself is, too often, creating God in one's own image.

Looking for oneself in God, it seems to me, puts one on the right footing.

God bless,

Thomas

I agree. Scriptures say......I have said ye are all gods.
 
I think he was .

Psalm 82 A Psalm of Asaph. God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment: 2 "How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? [Selah] 3 Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. 4 Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked." 5 They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken. 6 I say, "You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you; 7 nevertheless, you shall die like men, and fall like any prince." 8 Arise, O God, judge the earth; for to thee belong all the nations!

As you can see but know not , He is speaking to those who give justice to the weak and the fatherless but the wicked no not what is just or hear the cry of the righteous.
 
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