Made in God's image?

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grannymh said:
Being in God’s image is why the human species does not conform to all of the principles of the current life science model.
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So if we were to ever to see God “in person” would he or would he not look like a human being?
 
Lost_Sheep said:
So if we were to ever to see God “in person” would he or would he not look like a human being?
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***NOT ***

Human beings are not Divine.

However, my very handsome and deeply kind husband is close to being Divine. 😉

Does anyone really think that God would give up His Divinity in order to look like a human being in order to submit to some human person’s wishes?
 
grannymh said:
***NOT ***

Human beings are not Divine.

However, my very handsome and deeply kind husband is close to being Divine. 😉

Does anyone really think that God would give up His Divinity in order to look like a human being in order to submit to some human person’s wishes?
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But isn’t that what the Holy Church teaches really happened in 6BC?

Minus the “losing divinity” part obviously.

ICXC NIKA
 
GEddie said:
But isn’t that what the Holy Church teaches really happened in 6BC?

Minus the “losing divinity” part obviously.

ICXC NIKA
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If you are referring to the Incarnation, human nature was assumed, not absorbed.

This means that the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity was not a “look like a human being.” The original question in post 21 is "So if we were to ever to see God “in person” would he or would he not look like a human being? "
 
GEddie said:
The image of God is not per se the human body; we just need them to hold/express our aliveness and record our mind within the head.

The image is rather in the rational/conscious mind, or soul, which we have in common with God, who however as an infinite being has no need of embodiment.

ICXC NIKA
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Yes. 👍

Thus, in Christian art, God is depicted only to aid us, to have something to represent him in our minds.
 
grannymh said:
***NOT ***

Human beings are not Divine.

However, my very handsome and deeply kind husband is close to being Divine. 😉

Does anyone really think that God would give up His Divinity in order to look like a human being in order to submit to some human person’s wishes?
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Then if we ever get to Heaven, what should we expect to see?
 
Lost_Sheep said:
AAAAAnnnnnnnddddddddd… what does that look like?
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This cranky (feminine of snarky) granny has not traveled to heaven. So please
check with someone who left heaven after seeing the Beatific Vision.
 
Zerg said:
This quote is amazing!
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Thanks, it’s one of my favorites on this subject. I found that quote in The Pieta prayer book years ago.
Any time the question of what does God look like comes up, it’s the first thing that comes to mind.😃
 
Lost_Sheep said:
Oh, that’s it, huh? Sit down, shut up, do as you’re told and be a good little sheep. OK. I understand now.
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To give my opinion only, I think The Beatific Vision would appear to us as very bright golden light.
Again in my opinion only The Beatific Vision would be of spiritual form, and (in my opinion) we as humans are created in God’s image in a twofold manner 1st we have a soul which would (in my opinion) represent God’s image 2nd we have a body (ie;flesh) which our God took upon himself flesh and dwelt among us.
So in my opinion if you wish to know what God looks like, I would say to contemplate on Our Lord Jesus Christ.
 
Lost_Sheep said:
You obviously took my statement totally out of context. My point is that since no human has ever seen God face to face, we have no idea what He looks like. Yet we read the “in His image” clause of Genesis and think that humans must look more-or-less like God because we are “made in His image” while forgetting that humans have not always looked like they do today, and have existed in some form long before the book of Genesis.

Admittedly, the primordial slime idea is a little extreme, but it begs the question, when in the timeline of history did God first create life? Did humanoid creatures just magically appear on Earth one day as a result of an act of God, or are they the evolutionary descendants of a single-cell organism from way back when?
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MY dear friend in Christ,

Playing the Devils advocate here:

So Jesus is NOT GOD?

:John 10:30
I and the Father are one.

John 17:22
And the glory which thou hast given me, I have given to them; that they may be one,** as we also are one:**

**Mt 3: 13-17 ** {the Trinity}
"Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to the Jordan, unto John, to be baptized by him. But John stayed him, saying: I ought to be baptized by thee, and comest thou to me? [15] And Jesus answering, said to him: Suffer it {permit it} to be so now. For so it becometh us to fulfill all justice. Then he suffered him. And Jesus being baptized,{God the Son} forthwith came out of the water: and lo, the heavens were opened to him: and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove,{God the Holy Spirit} and coming upon him. And behold a voice from heaven, saying: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased{God the Father}.

Dear friend one of the Reason Jesus [GOD} became Incarnae man, like us in every way BUT sin, was to permit humanity to see, to meet, to identify WITH GOD…

Gen. 1-26-27
"And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness: and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that moveth upon the earth.* And God created man to his own image: to the image of God he created him: male and female he created them"*** This is no metaphor, no, it’s reality.

Then John 4:23-24 tells us
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true adorers shall adore the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father also seeketh such to adore him. [24] God is a spirit; and they that adore him, must adore him in spirit and in truth.

So then how can mortal man emulate our Immortal God?

Send me a Private message and I will show you with evidence. I don’t want to hijack this thread.

God: Jesus Instituted the Most holy Eucharist so that we could, we CAN “see Him face to face.”… GOOGLE “Eucharistic Miracles”

Five authors of the NT all testify to this reality:

Mt. 26: 26-28
Mk. 14: 22-24
Lk 22: 17:20
John 6: entire chapeter but quoted here for space is verses 47:58

Amen, amen {Means TRULY, Truly} I say unto you: He that believeth in me, hath everlasting life.I am the bread of life. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven; that if any man eat of it, he may not die.
I am the living bread which came down from heaven. [52] If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever; and the bread that I will give, is my flesh, for the life of the world. [53] The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying: How can this man give us his flesh to eat? Jesus said to them: Amen, amen {FYI: “Amen” means TRULY} I say unto you: Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath everlasting life: and I will raise him up in the last day. {CONDITIONALLY}

** For my flesh is meat indeed: and my blood is drink indeed**. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, abideth in me, and I in him. [58] As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father; so he that eateth me, the same also shall live by me. "

WHICH IS PRECISELY WHAT HAPPENS IN CATHOLIC HOLY COMMUNION

1st. Cor 11: 23-30
For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread And giving thanks, broke, and said: Take ye, and eat: **this is my body, **which shall be delivered for you: this do for the commemoration of me. In like manner also the chalice, after he had supped, saying: This chalice is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as often as you shall drink, for the commemoration of me.

[For as often as you shall eat this bread, and drink the chalice, you shall shew the death of the Lord, until he come.Therefore whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord. But let a man prove himself: and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of the chalice. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord. Therefore are there many infirm and weak among you, and many sleep. {“sleep here” means Eternal damnation"}

Paul would have been crazy to say this about eating JUST bread and wine.

My friend, PLEASE DO send me a private message and I CAN show, even prove to you “in His Image.”

God Bless you

Patrick {PJM} here on CAF**
 
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