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...who currently alive on this planet most resembles God?
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If man was made in God's image...?
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An image is not necessarily an exact duplicate, a Picasso copy is not a Picasso!
A photograph (or artist’s portrait painted on canvas) of me has my image and perhaps some of my charateristics, but not all of my abilities.
The "image of God" does not seem likely to refer to man's physical nature, since God is spirit (John 4:24), and a spirit does not have flesh and blood (Luke 24:39).
It therefore appears that man is similar to God (though not on His level) and unlike animals in the following ways:
1. Man has rational intelligence. He has ability to reason, invent, communicate, etc., in ways far beyond animals (see below). His ability in this regard allows him to communicate with God and understand God's will for him in a way that no animal ever could.
2. Man has a will, and a power to choose. He is a free moral agent. He is able, without absolute controls (like a robot), to choose between alternatives and determine which course he will pursue. He is therefore accountable before God to make the choices and pursue the goals that God instructs him to.
3. Man has emotions. He can experience joy, love, anger, hatred, sorrow and many other feelings. The Bible also attributes such feelings to God.
4. Man has a conscience. He is able, not only to distinguish right from wrong, but also to have an inherent sense of guilt when he has done wrong and a sense of approval when he has done right.
5. Man has a spirit nature which has the opportunity to be with God in eternity. Cf. John 4:24 to Ecc. 3:21; 12:7; etc.
Simple observation shows that man is far different from the animals.
Only man has rational intelligence. What animal uses abstract symbols (letters and numbers) to speak, write, or do mathematical and scientific calculations?
Among animals there are many shades of intelligence. If man evolved from animals, why are there not animals with shades of intelligence right up to ours, instead of so vast a gulf?
Only man creates new beauty to appreciate in the form of music, art, poetry, humor, etc.
Only man has a conscience and sense of religious values. What animal by nature feels a sense of guilt or seeks to find and worship the cause of its existence?
If man simply evolved from animals, how do we explain these vast differences?
If we develop new characteristics according to "survival of the fittest," how does appreciation of art, etc., make us more fit to survive?
But all these differences are easily explained by the Bible. These are characteristics man shares with God in whose “image” we were made!
A photograph (or artist’s portrait painted on canvas) of me has my image and perhaps some of my charateristics, but not all of my abilities.
The "image of God" does not seem likely to refer to man's physical nature, since God is spirit (John 4:24), and a spirit does not have flesh and blood (Luke 24:39).
It therefore appears that man is similar to God (though not on His level) and unlike animals in the following ways:
1. Man has rational intelligence. He has ability to reason, invent, communicate, etc., in ways far beyond animals (see below). His ability in this regard allows him to communicate with God and understand God's will for him in a way that no animal ever could.
2. Man has a will, and a power to choose. He is a free moral agent. He is able, without absolute controls (like a robot), to choose between alternatives and determine which course he will pursue. He is therefore accountable before God to make the choices and pursue the goals that God instructs him to.
3. Man has emotions. He can experience joy, love, anger, hatred, sorrow and many other feelings. The Bible also attributes such feelings to God.
4. Man has a conscience. He is able, not only to distinguish right from wrong, but also to have an inherent sense of guilt when he has done wrong and a sense of approval when he has done right.
5. Man has a spirit nature which has the opportunity to be with God in eternity. Cf. John 4:24 to Ecc. 3:21; 12:7; etc.
Simple observation shows that man is far different from the animals.
Only man has rational intelligence. What animal uses abstract symbols (letters and numbers) to speak, write, or do mathematical and scientific calculations?
Among animals there are many shades of intelligence. If man evolved from animals, why are there not animals with shades of intelligence right up to ours, instead of so vast a gulf?
Only man creates new beauty to appreciate in the form of music, art, poetry, humor, etc.
Only man has a conscience and sense of religious values. What animal by nature feels a sense of guilt or seeks to find and worship the cause of its existence?
If man simply evolved from animals, how do we explain these vast differences?
If we develop new characteristics according to "survival of the fittest," how does appreciation of art, etc., make us more fit to survive?
But all these differences are easily explained by the Bible. These are characteristics man shares with God in whose “image” we were made!
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donwbur
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Ive asked this question to several ministers and priests. They all say that the concept of god's face is a perfect mix of every human being to ever live, so take the trillions of people from the dawn of man, take all their faces, blend em into one face and that's gods face. Think mixing red and blue evenly to get purple, only red and blue are every woman and man to ever live and purple is god.
Luigi Fontaine
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a loving mother and father, in holy union, giving life
Some of the masters of higher consciousness.
The practice in secrecy, and do not seek fame since they are above that stuff and do not care for it. They simply send out 'positive energy' into the world to counter balance negativity that is in it, in order to prevent the world from destroying itself or sinking into a deep abyss.
The resemblance is not a physical one, a person a to get past this to understand what this entails.
The practice in secrecy, and do not seek fame since they are above that stuff and do not care for it. They simply send out 'positive energy' into the world to counter balance negativity that is in it, in order to prevent the world from destroying itself or sinking into a deep abyss.
The resemblance is not a physical one, a person a to get past this to understand what this entails.