Re: Who is more human-like: God or Satan?
Originally posted by Morgoths_Wrath
I know that human beings were made in God’s image, but it seems to me that human beings have more in common with the devil than they do with the divine Lord. Does anyone else agree?
Human created in the image of God...does not mean the hands,legs..nose etc. It's not the form. It's the nature. Adam the 1st man had the qualities of God to an extent till he lose it in the event of the original sin. now sin is in every man...since he/she was born.
but since what defines a human is his/hers ability to change, grow, and reason, doesn't that imply that god changes with time as do his/hers concept of morality?
This would basically solve a few reigious parodoxes by basically saying that assuming that there is a god, God is relatively infallible. Meaning that just because something was once a sin, doesn't mean its always a sin as man being in God's image means that man changes with God. This doesn't mean that God can be wrong. Only that God can change which is the implicit ability God gave to humans.
Being immutable is often one of the attributes ascribed to God. The concept that God cannot and does not change comes from the idea of God being perfect. If God is perfect right now, then it would not seem possible for God to change. Any change would either add to God, which suggests that God wasn’ t really perfect before, or it would take away from God, which suggests that God would no longer be perfect.
duality, how paganistic. The idea that God would allow a treasonous, tortured prisoner like Dis to have any power is ludioucris. If there is a god, then evil is a creation of humans who choose to blame their wrongs on some evil living below them.
As for Storm's point, it's still valid because God is perfect at any point in time. The concept of what perfection is is what changes and both God and humanity realize this simultaneously. Therefore God is still relatively perfect, but never imperfect.