The Image of God

Are we beings of free will or not? Image likeness of body, thought, or something greater.

It's said we are made in gods image, what does this really mean?

God is Male? Then women are not made in gods image. Female? Then the same. Attributes?. Then what are those.

What exactly does the Image of God define of it's Highest Creation.

Another question you could add to this is if we were originally made in god's image, have we changed?

Or are we an image of god to himself? (like, do we all look the same to him?)

Of course, this is assuming there is a god.

Originally posted by allofyousuckkk
Another question you could add to this is if we were originally made in god's image, have we changed?

Or are we an image of god to himself? (like, do we all look the same to him?)

Of course, this is assuming there is a god.

Theres a few possibilities here.

#God is actually human, but immortal and a bit on the clever side when it comes to technology. He can manipulate the building blocks of material universe to make things.

# In his Image actually means we can also create things like he does, we are actually his tool or Terra formers put on a prepared earth in order to change it. He created the biological world, we are making computer robotic stuff which will eventually be incorporated into the biological stuff to create mega advanced being(s).

# It could also be meant in a mood sort of way, one minute Gods slaughtering loads of people then the next its all love peace and all that. An we also have our bad days when we could punch someone in the face, and others where the worlds wonderful and ah yes isn´t love great.

Originally posted by debbiejo
Are we beings of free will or not?

That's always a tough question. I believe we both have free will and a "destiny".

From the Bible's point-of-view, we all have free will, because if we didn't then everybody who ever lived would have come to a saving knowledge of Christ; for it's God's will for all people: "...to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth." (1 Tim. 2:4b)

Joshua said to the Israelites: "And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." (Joshua 25:15)

However, our free will does not in any way put limits on God's power. The Bible says that God hardened Pharaoh's heart (Ex. 9:12). So God is able to predestine our lives despite our choices or free will; after all, He is God. In all things that God does, however, He does to make His name great, which hardening the heart of Pharaoh accomplished.

In asking "Are we beings of free will or not", it's not as black-and-white an answer according to the Bible, because I believe, based on scripture alone, that it is a little bit of both...both of which works towards the glory of God.

Originally posted by debbiejo
It's said we are made in gods image, what does this really mean?

I believe it means that we, unlike anything else on earth, are like God; meaning that we can reflect and reproduce (on our earthly "level"😉 the ways of God. [/B][/QUOTE]

Originally posted by debbiejo
God is Male? Then women are not made in gods image. Female? Then the same. Attributes?. Then what are those.

What exactly does the Image of God define of it's Highest Creation.

Both males and females are equal image-bearers of God: "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them." (Gen. 1:27).

God is not a man. "God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man..." (Numbers 23:19) But God is spirit: "God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth." (John 4:24)

Maybe "God's" as curiously stupid as we are if there is a "God".

"God is spirit

Originally posted by debbiejo
God is also the Creator, maybe we are also creators being in the image of god.

You mean like how we can create art and music...stuff like that?

Originally posted by ska57
You mean like how we can create art and music...stuff like that?

Originally posted by debbiejo
Of course, but why not more. If we are created in gods image, can we not create even more?

Because we are not made in the literal image of god. God is imaginary, and we are real.

But I'm not talking about your image of god. I'm using that word as a force/universe/source/energy.

Originally posted by Bicnarok

#God is actually human, but immortal and a bit on the clever side when it comes to technology. He can manipulate the building blocks of material universe to make things.

Then it sounds like he's a Greek god.

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
God is imaginary, and we are real.

Originally posted by ska57
I'm curious, what do you believe, Shaky?

Have you read all my posts? 😉 I believe that life and complex cardiac systems have something in common, they both have similar behaviors.

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
I believe that life and complex cardiac systems have something in common, they both have similar behaviors.

p.s. Would this include listening to 80's music?

Originally posted by ska57
To move in an obsessivly repetitive, rythmic, stationary beat in order to serve the transportation of iron- and oxygen-enriched erythrocytes out of the left ventricle and inevitably to all facilities of the whole, Shaky???

p.s. Would this include listening to 80's music?

Interesting, but not what I was getting at. I will try to answer your question in a simpler form; I am a Buddhist. Does that help?