UOTE="KenS, post: 7500235, member: 47847"].
Why can't I? I was made in His image and in His likeness.
I'm not confused... maybe confusion comes from lack of knowledge or because we aren't viewing it spiritually?
1 Corinthians 2:14
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Again, you are not saying what Jesus said. Moses didn't even write the first 5 books in the Bible. This is a known fact. There are many contradictions from the first book Genisus onwards...the Bible contains over 4000 contradictions alone.
To claim that God made man in His image cannot be proven. To say that you are like your creator is blasphemous, for human nature is not comparable to God Almighty. Nothing is compared to Him. He is flawless, whereas humans are not. Jesus was human, he said that he himself could do nothing but only by the one who sent him. He didn't send himself. Quote me what Jesus says and stop relying on the books that Jesus himself nor God endorsed.
In the Quran Allah says:
You are correct in many ways but you err on the matter of ‘Image of God’.
‘Image of God’ means things like the ability to know good from bad, to perceive, to love, to forgive, to plan, create, invent, design, destroy, sustain, maintain, to rule…
How many of these things are in the animals at the same time. The animals were not made in the image of God. And that’s why man, Adam, and the holy angels are called, ‘Sons of God’.
Humans and holy angels are ‘Like God’ but not with authority to BE GOD, for there can be ONLY ONE GOD.
Animals do not rule themselves. They operate under a simple closed-loop that changes only over long periods of time and does not react quickly to changing situations. The greater mass of animals only live for short periods of time - until man sinned, his life would have been thousands of years if not eternal.
I know you are speaking about what the Koran says but as Christian’s we cannot agree on the matter of Image of God.
And, as for Jesus, the emphasis that he was the ‘Only’ Son of God made in the image of God, is muddled by those of the trinitarian belief in Christianity. You must understand that there are ones, and yes, the greater mass of believers, who strongly believe in a false ideology of Christianity. I know it is easy to criticise these Trinitarians simply because their ideology IS FALSE… even those of us who are true Christians highly criticise our brethren Trinitarians.
The problem you have is knowing the difference between the fallacies of the Trinitarians - and the truth of the true Christian (note that ‘trinitarian’ is plural since virtually all Trinitarians individually believe their own ideology - they make it up as they go along… Whereas true Christian is singular: it is one only belief among ALL true believers)
So saying, Jesus is ‘ONLY Son of God’ because he, and he alone, as a man, is the ONLY human who follows the spirit of God; who does the works of his Father. All other humans err because of sin in us.
But note that the holy angels are also ‘Sons of God’ and an image of God but not with rulership aspirations. Their whole mindset is to follow the spirit of their creator God: to do his Will. Any Angel who foregoes his leadership knows he is doomed - the glory of the holy Angel is to please his creator.
Angels are immensely powerful and highly intelligent. Trinitarians do not like hearing this truth and hence cannot believe that God would have been speaking to them as a committee when he said, ‘Let us create man in our image’.
God is totally powerful: the angels are immensely powerful.
God is totally intelligent: the angels are highly intelligent.
Thus the angels are an IMAGE of their creator.
And mirror man in regard to God…. and certainly man is ‘God’ above the animals.
Just to define something for your understanding:
“God” just means ‘Ruler / Judge’. We use the TITLE, ‘God’ as if it were a NAME because we, as Christians, like you, believe in ONLY ONE GOD (though the fallacy of the trinitarian confuses this by claiming three PERSONS as this ONE GOD…. Nonsense, I know!!). The truth is that we SHOULD say, ‘The God’ instead of just ‘God’… just as we say ‘The King’ or ‘The Judge’ and not just ‘King’ or ‘Judge’ when referring to a person of reverence in the order of rulership.
We should also say, ‘Our God’, but since we are speaking among ourselves about our only God, we shorten the reference to just ‘God’.
You do right by using the NAME you give this one God. This way you don’t confuse TITLE with NAME.
Unfortunately, because the majority of Christian’s are Trinitarians, the idea that ‘God’ is a name has hardened and come to be normalised. It’s meaning is lost. So saying that ‘God is three persons’ makes sense to a trinitarian but no sense to anyone else. But it us curious that when called to explain what ‘God’ means, the trinitarian cannot say!!!! That is because the trinitarian suddenly realises that it makes no sense what he believes. This way, he MAKES UP a load of nonsense probably copied from what another trinitarian has written …which itself is a load of nonsense (the fool following the fool!).
Point of fact: The Trinitarians says that Jesus
is God because he is
the Son of God.
Think about that….
Is a Son of a king,
King?
No, he is
A PRINCE.
The trinitarian premises are false - but he continues to ignore the falseness in order to upkeep the false ideology and remain friends with his equally fallacious friends of unbelief in truth.