In The Bible it is said that God created humans copying his own image. So this means that God has the same form as a human. Why would an eternal God have the form of a human? Wouldn't it be more logical that he is just energy or a light or something similar?
You don't understand the meaning of the word 'image' in this context. You believe it is form because your ego's thought system perceive forms.You're not the body.
>>18496210So what does image means then?
>>18496251>God created man in his image; in the divine image he created him; male and female he created them. Image in "God created man in His image" does not mean physical appearance or gender, because God is formless spirit and not a body. It means that creation shares God's nature or qualities: eternal love, innocence, unity, creativity, and changeless spirit. The body and all differences, including male and female, belong to the world of perception and separation, while the true "Image of God" is the Christ Self, the one divine Identity God created, forever one with Him.
>>18496572Ok so it means more his nature.Then why there are so many paintings with God as a man?, why did the church approved that if God doesn't have that form?
>>18496576>paintsArtists don't know better. Also they have limited resources to try (and fail) to portray what is limitless. The very human mind (limited) cannot imagine what has no limit.The Church is a religious institution, it is not a religion. Big difference.
>God has the same form as a humanNo, you don't get it.It's humans who have the image of God.Not the other way around.
>>18496202Honestly if we for a second assume that it isn't a bronze age myth, then the answer could be that he created our minds to work similar to how his own mind works, giving us consciousness, the ability to speak, to create and shape the world.It doesn't have to be a physical resemblance.
>>18496202Yeah he looks like a dude.And he hung out on a mountain.Later the Israelites carried him around in a mobile tent.
>>18496202An individual i bunked with for a night claimed this theory that ‘individuals were made in the image of god and that the machine was made in the image of the individual’ or something like that, anyways that was really an odd thing to claim and i would have liked just a nice conversation because i had been riding the train out of the west coast for a bit for a few daysI like the word ‘pattern’ here as if what were involved were the ratios of patterns or the patterns of ratios or something like that
>>18496202there are quite a few versions of those events and you can not understand the truth of any of them unless you know the truth in all of them
>>18496202Jews stole that idea from Prometheus story where Prometheus creates humanity. Everything in OT has been stolen and changed, evil cannot create and as we know Jews are evil.
>>18496202In the times of many gods they believed the samething. The gods made humans in their own image. The tradition is kept into account as they teach a new idea in one god being behind it all. That is also why the bible says god is male and female. God really has no image and is eternal. A god that is male and female invokes reproduction. also a tradition that gods came together like humans do and made more gods. It's a thing of reaction, traditions and transition. From many gods to one.
>>18496202In moat schools of thought "God's image" isn't like, a physical thing, but souls or some shit
>>18496576Greeks and Romans liked anthropomorphized art of deities
>>18497561Mesopotamia, Egypt and Indus Valley used human shaped depictions for their gods too. Plus some wings and horns here and there. Human shaped gods used to be the norm. At least in all the places that matter. Being anti-idol is an Abrahamic/Yahwehist thing. First they banned the idols of other gods and then during the Babylonian era depictions of Yahweh become taboo as well. Christians stopped giving a fuck at some point, while Islam went all in and banned depictions of venerated humans as well.
>>18496202>>18497323Thats because Genesis is ripped off of Mesopotamian myths and the story of prometheus Just wait until you find out about Zagreus Dionysus
>>18496202I understand completely now. Our neural net was created in gods vision just as are making a.i. in a simulation that will later have robotic bodies. It's neural net will be designed based on our own image. This is blowing my mind.
>>18498573>chikkin nugget gif on a /his/ religion thread of all placeswell now I've seen everything
>>18498576Chaos is taking form before your very eyes.
>>18496202None of this shit makes any sense unless u severely gas light the shit out of yourself...
