We are ALL created in God's image

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(This is a personal opinion after much thought and deliberation. I hope you don’t mind me sharing.)

We think of “image” as a “mirror image”, but image can be more. In Genesis there is a strong sense of plurality:

Genesis 1:26
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness

Taking the plurality idea:

Malachi 3:
17 And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.

God refers to men as jewels and therefore he is also as a jewel. The first thing God created was Light.

What happens when you shine a light through a jewel?


“Following the rainbow”:

Genesis 9
12 And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
14 And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud:

In order re-create white light, one needs the entire spectrum. Visible light stretches from 390 to 700 nano metres and there are an infinite number of colours in between. Therefore, in order to come closer to the Light that is God, all of humanity needs to accept itself, warts and all, and co-exist with itself in harmony. Creating divisions is not the answer.

Scarlet and purple alone do not make white. We know what happens to the ‘mother of all harlots’ adorned in these colours in Revelation. She sets herself apart and is destroyed. She should have worn Joseph’s technicolour dream-coat.

As the number of unique colours in visible Light is infinite, so are humans. No two humans in eternity can ever be identical, not even twins. We are all different, but we are all ‘in the image’. Each of us is a unique colour and no one colour is more important than another.

In conclusion:
Love God and all His colours with all your heart and mind.
Love each other’s colours as your own.
 
God loves everyone with an undying, eternal love. That has never been in question. He does not, however, love all action and choices equally, which is what it really feels like you’re trying to promote with this.

The Church does not seek to create division. She calls everyone to holiness. If people choose to cut themselves off from her, it is not her fault that they have created a division.
 
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We are created in the image of God means that we were given an intellect and a free will to come to know the truth (Him) and to do the good.

Our job is to mimic God in a sense…to use the means He gives us…not just our will and our intellect but also the graces that He offers us through His Church to come to know the truth and to do the good with all our heart, mind, soul and strength.

The little rainbow above is cute (and likely politically aimed) but it’s sort of superficial…and actually mocks our intellect and free will, and the entire plan of God.
 
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ProdglArchitect said:
The Church does not seek to create division. She calls everyone to holiness. If people chose to cut themselves off from her, it is not her fault that they have created a division.
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All religions would say the same thing.

However, as I see it, all religions want their followers to match their colour preference. A green religion won’t tolerate red people. A yellow religion would never accept violet values. A blue religion could never be associated with a red one. As such, the spectrum is fractured and white light can never be re-created even though all religions aspire to the Light (enlightenment).

Even within the Universal Church there are divisions. Protestants don’t like the colour of Catholics and vice-versa, even though they share the same Light.
 
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The previous one was better:

New Jerusalem: 12 gates, river, gold buildings, all tribes (colours) represented…!
 
Jezra said:
Therefore, in order to come closer to the Light that is God, all of humanity needs to accept itself
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I love your analogy. I like it when someone (you) can internalize an idea or concept, and then do something with it.
 
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My mind is blown. Your whole image of God-man-humanity-color analogy is just groovy. It reminds me of the psychedelic street prophets of the '60’s with their long hair and Jesus-like beards, and sometimes earrings and weird-o granny eye-glasses, just standing on street corners everywhere, barefoot or in sandals, as if to say, “Look at me, I am here, I abide. I dig being human.”
 
Nothing is black and white and Creation certainly isn’t grey. That only leaves colour.
 
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I love your analogy. I like it when someone (you) can internalize an idea or concept, and then do something with it.
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Could you add the other picture with the twelve pointed star under the kaleidoscope, please?
 
Yes. I’m happy to do that. Are these the colors you wanted?
 
Wow! Your ideas are pristine. With each word, I echo your steps, hypnotically, following your analogy down a luminous, spiral of lucidity, entering my mind like a lipid diamond, containing all which might be found in their colors which collide like memories never meant to grow but in one instant begin to flow, revealing a past I did not know, images coming nearer like footsteps once heard faintly in my ear, of forgotten ones once held so dear, beyond all darkness in forgotten times and in forgotten lands, from where now crystalline arms reach out for me with kindest hands to carry humanity’s one heart, residing in me like magic, away, it seems, down its staircase made of dreams.
 
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"Picture yourself in a boat on a river
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes

Cellophane flowers of yellow and green
Towering over your head
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes
And she’s gone

Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Ah

Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain
Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies
Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers
That grow so incredibly high

Newspaper taxis appear on the shore
Waiting to take you away
Climb in the back with your head in the clouds
And you’re gone

Lucy in the sky with diamonds…

Picture yourself on a train in a station
With plasticine porters with looking glass ties
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile
The girl with the kaleidoscope eyes

Lucy in the sky with diamonds…"

Lennon/McCartney
 
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If your words weren’t so poetic, I might think you were mocking me.

I can’t take all the credit. Revelation is jam-packed with colours.
 
All religions are not equal, and only the Catholic Church was founded by Christ. The other Protestant religions exist because their founders chose to break with Catholicism. It is not the church’s fault that they thought they knew better than God.
 
Continuing my thought process, which is sheer speculation but could make a good book…

Bear in mind also that the prophecies state there will be a sign in the heavens and that the Son of Man comes on the clouds to complete the covenant. Also remember that the sign in the heavens at the first covenant with Noah was the rainbow. When the sign of the Son of Man appears, all nations will mourn.

“But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.”

The sign announcing the Son of Man is the perfect rainbow in heaven which does not reconcile with the colours of men on Earth. And because divided man refuses to change his ways and reflect the division-less rainbow, so he will mourn. Why? Because rejecting God’s rainbow, the covenant, is the first death.

BTW, the Seven Seals are ‘broken’ (solved). You will see that there is a theme: days of the week, astronomy, mathematics, rainbows, physics …? They form part of the common language - universal concepts independent of spoken language, race, religion, gender, sexuality…

The common language was used to build the Tower of Babel: mathematics, physics, chemistry… God saw it as an abuse. After Babel, the language was always there but few spoke it. The Church forbade it as it did not serve its interests, so God intervened. More people than ever speak it. However, division and war has seen it being abused. Therefore the common language must be used to remove those divisions, the largest founded in the multiple dialects of religion. For that reason, all religious prophecies rely on the common language in some way or form. The foundation of the Bible is the common language. Genesis 1, for example, represents childbirth: Day 1: Let there be light: dilation, Day 2: contractions and the positioning of the baby, Day 3:waters breaking, Day 4: baby sees light… The common language does not allow for a seven day Creation. Childbirth, on the other hand, it does.

https://forums.catholic-questions.org/t/i-believe-i-have-solved-the-seven-seals/504423

Therefore, on the off-chance I’m on the right path, you might consider the sign in heaven presented, along with the means to accept God’s rainbow using the common language. I will use the common language now:. According to my interpretation of prophecy, you have until Virgo is clothed in the sun and the moon is at her feet astronomically to avoid the first death.

J L(a)-M-B
 
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