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The Image Of God
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Native
Free Natural Philosopher & Comparative Mythologist
"God" is imagined by humans to reside "in Heaven" and as "we are created in the image of God", there logically must be a heavenly i. e. a celestial image which looks like, or can be imagined as a human being.
In order to describe a human form an gender, such a heavenly image must have some significant human shapes. We then have several Star Constellations to consider as suggested here.
We also have to consider the very contours of the Milky Way on both hemispheres. For instants, in ancient Egypth, the Goddess Hathor resembles the Milky Way contours on the southern Sky and, for instants, in ancient Rome, their God Saturnus resembles the Milky Way contours on the northern Sky.
What then about the general OP question of "The image of God"?
It´s obvious that humans all over the world have described different celestial images with human names - even in BOTH genders. So we don´t just have One prime God as in the Abrahamic religions, but also One prime Goddess as noted by the Milky Way images above.
But if we humans have given names to the prime heavenly deities, are we then been made of these gendered deities? Oh, yes we are! The creative forces in our Milky Way galaxy (and beyond) have also created the entire Solar System and all its life on the Earth.
Regards
Native
In order to describe a human form an gender, such a heavenly image must have some significant human shapes. We then have several Star Constellations to consider as suggested here.
We also have to consider the very contours of the Milky Way on both hemispheres. For instants, in ancient Egypth, the Goddess Hathor resembles the Milky Way contours on the southern Sky and, for instants, in ancient Rome, their God Saturnus resembles the Milky Way contours on the northern Sky.
What then about the general OP question of "The image of God"?
It´s obvious that humans all over the world have described different celestial images with human names - even in BOTH genders. So we don´t just have One prime God as in the Abrahamic religions, but also One prime Goddess as noted by the Milky Way images above.
But if we humans have given names to the prime heavenly deities, are we then been made of these gendered deities? Oh, yes we are! The creative forces in our Milky Way galaxy (and beyond) have also created the entire Solar System and all its life on the Earth.
Regards
Native
IndigoChild5559
Loving God and my neighbor as myself.
It means that we share some of the characteristics of God, such as knowing good from evil, being capable of love, compassion, justice, mercy, etc. We are even creative.
PearlSeeker
Well-Known Member
I guess at the time Elohist creation story was composed they didn't know any concept of primal mediator/agent yet. Maybe it is explained in the context what was this image/likeness.
"... and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." (Genesis 1:26)
Genesis 1:26-27 is written in the Hebrew and Not in Greek.
URAVIP2ME claimed : "Genesis 1:26-27 is written in the Hebrew and Not in Greek." (post #45)
Last time I checked, the Jewish Septuagint, which was the most commonly used old testament in early Christendom, was written in greek.
Genesis 1:26-27 says : Και ειπεν ο θεοσ ποιησωμεν κατ εικονα ημετεραν και καθ ομοιωσιν και αρχετωσαν των ιχθυων τησ θαλασσησ και των πετεινων του ουρανου και των κτηνων και πασησ τησ γησ και παντων των ερπετων των ερποντων επι τησ γησ.
Και εποησεν ο θεοσ τον ανθρωπον κατ εικονα θεου εποιησεν αυτον αρσεν και θηλυ εποιησεν αυτουσ.
It seems like greek to me.....
Remember, the Jewish Septuagint of approx 300 b.c. was written in GREEK.
It is the Masoretic of the middle ages (approx 900-1400 a.d.) that was written in HEBREW.
Clear
ακφιακω
Last time I checked, the Jewish Septuagint, which was the most commonly used old testament in early Christendom, was written in greek.
Genesis 1:26-27 says : Και ειπεν ο θεοσ ποιησωμεν κατ εικονα ημετεραν και καθ ομοιωσιν και αρχετωσαν των ιχθυων τησ θαλασσησ και των πετεινων του ουρανου και των κτηνων και πασησ τησ γησ και παντων των ερπετων των ερποντων επι τησ γησ.
Και εποησεν ο θεοσ τον ανθρωπον κατ εικονα θεου εποιησεν αυτον αρσεν και θηλυ εποιησεν αυτουσ.
It seems like greek to me.....
Remember, the Jewish Septuagint of approx 300 b.c. was written in GREEK.
It is the Masoretic of the middle ages (approx 900-1400 a.d.) that was written in HEBREW.
Clear
ακφιακω
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Native
Free Natural Philosopher & Comparative Mythologist
Katzpur said: ↑
And yet, today, nobody seems to care what the words meant when they were actually written.
The ancient world view of our ancestors included the contours of the Milky Way and everything else visible as stars, star constellations, our Sun and Moon and the 5 visible planets, called "wandering stars". This is IMO what the numerois cultural stories of creation deals with.
These informations are not historical as such but astronomical and cosmological and this story is full of all kinds of human and animal "icons" i.e. symbols.
Read my post here for more information -
#42
And yet, today, nobody seems to care what the words meant when they were actually written.
Another huge problem is that we read Stories of Creation without making the conscious cosmological connection to WHAT is created and how this is symbolized in ancient texts.
The ancient world view of our ancestors included the contours of the Milky Way and everything else visible as stars, star constellations, our Sun and Moon and the 5 visible planets, called "wandering stars". This is IMO what the numerois cultural stories of creation deals with.
These informations are not historical as such but astronomical and cosmological and this story is full of all kinds of human and animal "icons" i.e. symbols.
Read my post here for more information -
#42
firedragon
Veteran Member
SO GOD CREATED THE MAN IN HIS IMAGE —in the type that was specially made for him, for everything else was created by a creative fiat, whilst he was brought into existence by a creative act (literally, by hand), as it is said (Psalms 139:5) “And Thou hast laid thy hand upon me.” He was made by a seal as a coin that is made by a die that is called in old French coin. It is similarly said, (Job 28:14) “it is changed as clay under the seal” (Sanhedrin 38a).
shivsomashekhar
Well-Known Member
How would you know this - beyond wildly speculating? We have a wide range of natures across humans - saint to serial killer. Which one specifically is in the image of God? The answer to this question would be pure speculation too.
Thanks for clarifying that it is opinion and not fact. Refugee parents and kids drown together in the Mediterranean - people who lost everything, were displaced and were in search of a decent life for their kids...but the boat sank ending everything tragically. I am curious how you see God in this?
Go ask the Christians as that's what they believe about it.