Did God make man in His(Her,Its) image or did man make God in his image?
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God is a man-made construct. Only through our arrogance would we perceive an all-powerful being to look like us.\n\nIf all religion ceased tomorrow and god was proven not to exist, the world would keep turning.
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The truth is no one really knows if God is a woman or a man. In the bible it does refer to God as He. However, one must realize that the bible was written by men. They brought their patriarchal views to the table and put them in the book. Men are fragile creatures who are afraid of what they don't understand. There was no way a that those men who wrote the bible would have actually admitted that God was a woman even if they knew different because they would loose that power over their wives and slaves.
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God created us for Himself. God wants us to choose to love Him and worship Him.
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Well, I am a believer but I will answer your question anyway---\n\nGod said: “Let us make man in our image.” (Ge 1:26) What a historic pronouncement! And what a singular position in history Adam, the “son of God,” holds—the first human creature! (Lu 3:38) Adam was the crowning glory of God's earthly creative works, not only because of the timing near the close of six creative epochs but, more importantly, because “in God’s image he created him.” (Ge 1:27) This is why the perfect man Adam, and his degenerate offspring to a much lesser degree, possessed mental powers and abilities far superior to all other earthly creatures.\nMade in the likeness of his Grand Creator, Adam had the divine attributes of love, wisdom, justice, and power; hence he possessed a sense of morality involving a conscience, something altogether new in the sphere of earthly life. In the image of God, Adam was to be a global administrator and have in subjection the sea and land creatures and the fowl of the air.\nIt was not necessary for Adam to be a spirit creature, in whole or in part, to possess Godlike qualities. God formed man out of the dust particles of the ground, put in him the force of life so that he became a living soul, and gave him the ability to reflect the image and likeness of his Creator. “The first man is out of the earth and made of dust.” “The first man Adam became a living soul.” (Ge 2:7; 1Co 15:45, 47) That was in the year 4026 B.C.E. It was likely in the fall of the year, for mankind’s most ancient calendars began counting time in the autumn around October 1, or at the first new moon of the lunar civil year. \nI hope this helps an unbeliever to believe.
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God does not have a "meaning" in the sense that you are asking. Your question is asked in a way to say "what is the human perception of God." While God can be perceived in many different ways by people, He is still seperate and distinct from them. His "meaning" comes from who He is. He is Holy, Just, Righteous, Faithful, Vengeful, Loving, Kind, Merciful, True, etc. These facts are known through His inspired word, the Bible. Through people, God wrote the Bible in order to display who He is, to us.
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from dust to dust... God create as from dust to remind us without HIM, we are nothing... All perfect things come from GOD... from meaningless to a glorify creature, because people are created in HIS Image... without HIS image then we're nothing.. He's planning not by coincidence... I put some verse, hopefully help us...\n\nThe LORD God took a handful of SOIL and made a MAN. God breathed LIFE into the man, and the man started BREATHING \n(Gen 2:7)\n\nGod said, "Now we will make humans, and they will be like us. We will let them rule the fish, the birds, and all other living creatures." So God created humans to be like himself; he made men and women. \n(Gen 1:26-27)\n\n\nGbu
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God, who made us is love, so we as beings made in His image love. It give meaning to life. All the  material things which we have amassed is nothing compared with this intangible thing we call love.
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You can decide what shape and form for your God to be.\nIf you think your God is a piece of pizza, so shall it be.\nThere isn't just one form that God is in.\nJust make your God to however you wish it to be.
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We were created in the image of God.
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God created the matter
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To start with, "all" means human beings -- not animals.  Secondly, in context with the theory of evolution, I don't believe it was a physical image in which He created us, but perhaps our souls that resemble Him.  As far as gender goes, God is neither man nor woman.  The male figure in early literature was always considered the dominant gender, so to represent God's dominion over the world, He has always naturally been assimilated to masculine terms.
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GOD and his own intentions.
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god created man. and man is NOT perfect
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Man did not create God.  God has always been.  He is the one who created the universe and everyone in it including us.
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The GOD is the same FORM as YOU are...........\n\nI will give you a simple explanation.............\n\nHave you ever thought GOD to be a dog or elephant or shark or a tree ! We humans think GOD as a human being only......isn't it ? Even a man will see GOD as a MAN and a woman will think GOD as a WOMAN.......true isn't it ? \n\nProbably a Dog will see his God to be a Dog only.........I tell you why this is so...........because no one has seen GOD and it exists only in our mind.........so we make a picture of GOD like ourself. \n\nI think GOD is nothing but a "Driving Power" that gives us inspiration to live ahead........
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Amen.\nGod is neither a he or a she. God is God and God has no gender because God is not a human. I think God is indeed portrayed as a male (or a female to all you feminists out there) because humanizing God makes God's doctrines seem more familiar.\n\nNow read that paragraph. Doesn't it sound weird? Instead of saying him I simply replaced all pronouns with God. For writing to sound the least bit intellegent, pronouns are necessary. But your right, why he(/she). We need a pronoun for God that doesn't humanize him.
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The Bible says that God created man in his own image.  You need to use your own judgement on what God is really like.  The Main point of Faith, no matter what your religious denomination is the Golden Rule... "Do unto others as you have them do unto you."  PERIOD  It doesnt take a Pope, Rabbi, Preacher, Preist to know that you should be kind to all creatures.