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God is Spirit (John 4:24), so to me it means that our spirits reflect god's, and consequently we can look to our spirit to understand god. It has nothing to do with physical formation, behaviors, or concepts like morality, but simply with understanding (literally, "standing under") god.royol said:That statement is really confusing, does it mean because he gave us a mouth through
which we eat and breath, God also needs to eat and breath?
"Face value" is the literal interpretation. There is much in the Bible that is obviously meant to be taken literally --the book of "begats" comes to mind. But some parts are meant to deliver another message.royol said:God created man in his own image.
Why does everything said or written in the bible turn out to be a coded message, it can never be taken on face value, it always seems the words used are never what the speaker or writer meant to say or write,they meant to say this or that, but never what they actually said or wrote?
Why is that????????????????????
Everything in the world can be interpreted "any way you want."royol said:Why can everything it says in the bible be read ten different ways, it allows you to read anything and interpret it any way you want.
How is the context similar? One talks about God creating mankind, which is a supernatural act; the other about a man begetting a man.Polaris said:"And God said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness" (Genesis 1:26)
"And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image" (Genesis 5:3)
Based on the context and similarity in the wording of these passages, it makes perfect sense to conclude that we were indeed made after the likeness of God, both in a physical and spiritual sense. This implies that God has a body like ours with arms, legs, hands, a face, etc. I believe that God is a glorified and perfected man, similar to what Christ became upon his resurrection.
God created mankind in His image after His likeness and gave him the ability to procreate after his image and likeness. How does the fact that God created man by some means we don't fully understand (i.e. it was a supernatural act) change the meaning of the words "image" and "likeness"? I'm not following your line of thinking.Willamena said:How is the context similar? One talks about God creating mankind, which is a supernatural act; the other about a man begetting a man.
The fact that something can be interpreted in any one of a number of different ways doesn't mean that every one of these ways is accurate. Give a bunch of kids a math test. Ask them what 7 X 5 is. You can allow them to give you any answer they want to, but that doesn't change the fact that the only correct answer is 35. God is what He is, and our choosing to believe He is something else isn't going to change a thing.royol said:Why can everything it says in the bible be read ten different ways, it allows you to read anything and interpret it any way you want.
Willamena said:How is the context similar? One talks about God creating mankind, which is a supernatural act; the other about a man begetting a man.
It's not a coded message. It means exactly what it says, except in instances where the meaning is very obviously symbolic. People are determined to look for deeper meanings in straightforward statements like "God created man in His image, after His likeness."royol said:God created man in his own image.
Why does everything said or written in the bible turn out to be a coded message, it can never be taken on face value, it always seems the words used are never what the speaker or writer meant to say or write,they meant to say this or that, but never what they actually said or wrote?
Why is that????????????????????
Katzpur said:It's not a coded message. It means exactly what it says, except in instances where the meaning is very obviously symbolic. People are determined to look for deeper meanings in straightforward statements like "God created man in His image, after His likeness."
Polaris said:"And God said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness" (Genesis 1:26)
"And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image" (Genesis 5:3)
Based on the context and similarity in the wording of these passages, it makes perfect sense to conclude that we were indeed made after the likeness of God, both in a physical and spiritual sense. This implies that God has a body like ours with arms, legs, hands, a face, etc. I believe that God is a glorified and perfected man, similar to what Christ became upon his resurrection.
Polaris said:I believe that God is a glorified
Katzpur said:The fact that something can be interpreted in any one of a number of different ways doesn't mean that every one of these ways is accurate. Give a bunch of kids a math test. Ask them what 7 X 5 is. You can allow them to give you any answer they want to, but that doesn't change the fact that the only correct answer is 35. God is what He is, and our choosing to believe He is something else isn't going to change a thing.