Creating God in Our Image
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 11:24 am
According to Genesis, God created Man in His Image:
"Let us make Man in our likeness"...
But according to many it was MAN that created God in His Image.
And perhaps they may be right.
While I certainly don't agree that IF there is a God, we created Him in Our Image but Ido agree that, as humans, we created our UNDERSTANDING of God in Our Image.
That is why we give God the qualities we posses:
He gets angry, He is jealous, He is vengeful, etc, etc
I don't think it is possible for Us to understand God OUSIDE of what we know of ourselves so yes, we "imprint" ourselves unto God.
When we fight and when, God is with US !!
When we fight and lose, He is angry with Us ( or else we would have won of course).
Since, in our view, God is all powerful then IF He allows certain things then He must, like WE WOULD, condone them, right?
I mean, doesn't that make sense ( for us)?
We search for God ( when we do) and we want to find US, the God WE want, the God WE THINK MUST be and when we don't find THAT God, then NO GOD exists, how can he?
If God isn't like what we think he MUST be, then how can God exist?
He must be like us, think like us, feel like us, want and need and look at things like US.
How can he not be like Us?
So, yes, it is true, we do create God in our image.
What other image CAN we create Him in?
"Let us make Man in our likeness"...
But according to many it was MAN that created God in His Image.
And perhaps they may be right.
While I certainly don't agree that IF there is a God, we created Him in Our Image but Ido agree that, as humans, we created our UNDERSTANDING of God in Our Image.
That is why we give God the qualities we posses:
He gets angry, He is jealous, He is vengeful, etc, etc
I don't think it is possible for Us to understand God OUSIDE of what we know of ourselves so yes, we "imprint" ourselves unto God.
When we fight and when, God is with US !!
When we fight and lose, He is angry with Us ( or else we would have won of course).
Since, in our view, God is all powerful then IF He allows certain things then He must, like WE WOULD, condone them, right?
I mean, doesn't that make sense ( for us)?
We search for God ( when we do) and we want to find US, the God WE want, the God WE THINK MUST be and when we don't find THAT God, then NO GOD exists, how can he?
If God isn't like what we think he MUST be, then how can God exist?
He must be like us, think like us, feel like us, want and need and look at things like US.
How can he not be like Us?
So, yes, it is true, we do create God in our image.
What other image CAN we create Him in?