That means we are all worthy and beautiful. Why does society have a standard of male and female beauty? Some argue there is science behind why some people are more widely considered beautiful than others. I am not sure honestly. To God, is the saint as worthy as the worst sinner? What good is it become a saint? If God loves us all equally no matter what we do, why follow God? Why is God the harshest on his followers? He allows some to persist in their sins for years - sadly sometimes devastating the lives of others. They never suffer for their sins on Earth. God does not want us to be angry at those who hurt us, but why not? Why did He make us human, yet hold us to be Godly standards? I monitored myself for a whole day. I had sinful thoughts, intentions, and committed sinful deeds. When I noticed how sinful I am, I wonder what good it is to have any friends. They must have very sinful thoughts and impure motivations as well. It is going to make it difficult for me to trust any person. Why does God want us to accept suffering? Didn’t Jesus already suffer?
"We are made in the Image of God’ is a basic truth. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to examine all the facets of this truth.
The first point in post 1 is – “That means we are all worthy and beautiful.” Yes, we are that. Our species is peerless in the material/physical environment. We can rightfully say that we are the pinnacle of earthly creation.
But – we cannot simply say that we are worthy and beautiful and then ignore what worthy and beautiful entails. What good is that?
The general knowledge about God includes the obvious that He is beautiful. Since we are peerless beings on earth, we can explore the idea that we are worthy of God’s beautiful friendship. We, as creatures, have always been aware of something other and beyond our own nature. Since the beginning of human history, we have this inherent sense of the super-natural or spiritual. Mankind has not always been proper or correct in the search for the super-natural, but that does not mean that human’s inherent sense of God disappears forever.
In addition, beautiful is far more appealing than the ugly. With that in mind, we recognize that ugly is also a part of our sojourn on earth. This brings us to one of the many basic questions of life. What makes us worthy to seek the ultimate beauty of God. Our decomposing anatomy is not all that helpful when it comes to ideas about eternity. At this point, we need to recognize that our own human nature is an union of both the spiritual and physical worlds. This union is not two separate things. This union itself is what makes us human with a single human nature.
When we recognize our own spiritual principle aka rational spiritual soul, we realize that being spiritual, we can connect with the Spiritual Being of God. Obviously we are not God, we are in the image of God. Being in the image of God, makes us worthy of His friendship.
