If God created us in his image why do we all look different ?
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He created Adam in his image, not us.  We are the results of hundreds of centuries of genetic variations.  If you study biology and human reproduction, you can see how He set this up so that we didn't end up all looking the same.
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Its Nothing Like That,\n\nIts Our Body and we want to look beauitiful, thats our choice.\n\nNothing religious i beleive
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We are special, made in the image and likeness of God.
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You are absolutely right! We need to get away from that.  We do it as a habit or what we were taught.  No one knows what God looks like so we should not worship statues or pictures that proclaim to be Him.  We should only worship him and not pics.
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We were clothes for the same reason Adam and Eve did. Gen 3:7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.\n 8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. This is what religion does for people today\n Now it may be OK in presence of a husband and wife but the Holy Spirit actually covered their nakedness before their minds were opened to Evil.  Genesis 2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.\n \n Fig leaves are like cotton and other plant life, but they were embarrassed because of what they did and felt the Fig leaves made it OK to stand in God's presence. We are no different today. God had to change their clothes to Lamb leathers;Gen 3:21 Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.  Revelation 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
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Because we are all different...that is the way we are suppose to be.  \n\nit is hard to understand other's beause we are not them.
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well, humans are so arrogant, we not only create a myth about some god, some said that he looks like a human. give me a break. god is a tool created to explain unknown things like dead and life, it does not look like something
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Man - he is created in His image
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Man created God in his own image
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God is a figment of mans imagination, therefore he is whatever you think he is. Imagine he changes and he changes.
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Genesis 1:27 says "So God created man in His own image:in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them." Genesis chapter 2 states that woman was taken out of man but prior to that in the verse above, God had stated what the end result will be. \n\nSo yes, the raw materials were different but the results are the same - both made in the image of God. Mind you, if woman was taken from man who was taken from the earth then she was ultimately taken from the earth as well.\n\nFinally, in Gen 2:7, "God formed man out of dust and breathed into his nostril the breath of life; and man became a living being." The same spirit that gave man life is the same spirit that made the woman a living being. The animals and plants were not treated in this way! Man and woman are different from the others because we were made in God's image to have dominion over all the rest of creation.
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Yaya--there is only one race because:\n"The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; neither is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all life and breath and all things;and He made from one man, every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times, and the boundaries of their habitation," (Acts 17:24-26)\n\n When God confused the languages at Babel, (Genesis 10, esp. verses 7&9) people could only marry close family members if they wanted to be able to communicate with their spouses!  So hair color, eye color, facial features, even skin tone, became concentrated in each family.  Each family eventually formed a nation or people group--and the people looked a lot alike because of the original close intermarrying.\n\nYes, "Racism" exists--because people are sinful.  A person might use himself or herself as the standard and shun people who are different.  Of course, other people will also shun or persecute this person because of their differences.  \n\nShunning or persecuting people based on their skin color or features is wrong.  God looks on the heart, and what matters is that your heart is right with God, not whether you are black or white, brown-haired or blonde-haired, pretty or ugly, or any of the outside physical differences between people.
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They are works of imagination. For one, Jesus being the son of a Nazarene, would have looked like a Middle Eastern person, not the brown haired blue eyed person that is typically portrayed by Western artists.\n\nFurthermore, Isaiah 53:2 (Christians presume that this chapter prophesieses of Jesus - for e.g. 53:1 is quoted in John 12:38) states that "He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him" (this is from the New International Version). You could take this to mean that Jesus was not good looking either. Another interpretation could be that he did not look 'royal', but regardless, he was probably an average looking Joe.\n\nI'm not sure if I would want to fault the artists for their inaccurate portrayals of Jesus. Perhaps a misplaced attempt at depicting those aspects that we find admirable. In the end, the physical appearance is immaterial, it is what the man stands for that is important.
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Interesting question. Here is what i think of this. God does not need to be human first to be able to make humans. Just like we dont need to be a cd or a dvd player to be able to make them. 'In His image' means that we have in us, qualities that are His too, like love and compassion, and the ability to create new things, like tv's, and other electric, non-electric things. Even can play with dna and come up with new things. But all this does not qualify us as Gods, for we are "In His image", and not Gods per sec. Image is like a shadow of a thing, like one's reflection in a mirror. We have in us but a reflection of His qualities, which make us "in His image" but not Him.
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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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God has created adam and eve to His image. you are a human as adam and eve, why should you tamper with the creation of the Great Creator?
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This is an excelent question! \nat Genesis chapter 1 verses 26 and 27 it says\n\n26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.\n  \nto know the answer to this question, it is important to know what it is meant when it says that we were made in God's image and likeness. of course this does not mean that we have the same substance as God or angels but perhaps the same attributes. God is a spirit says the bible at \n\nJohn 4:24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth."\n\nso when we read that we are made in his image, we should not imagine that we have a body like his. instead of thinking this way, we know that God has attributes like \n1.)Power\nJob 37:23 The Almighty is beyond our reach and exalted in power;\n2 corinthians 4:7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.\n2.)Justice\ndeutoronomy 32:4 He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are justice. A faithful God who does no wrong, \nupright and just is he.\nisaiah 61:8 "For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity.\n3.)Wisdom\nromans 11:33 Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!\njob 12:13 "To God belong wisdom and power; counsel and\nunderstanding are his.\n4.)Love\n1john 4:8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.\nexodus 34:6 And he passed in front of Moses,\nproclaiming, "The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, 7 maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin.\n\nwhen we examine this attributes and try to compare them with the rest of creation it is almost impossible to match them all in one of this things. for example if you try to attribute all of this qualities to the stars. certanly you could say that a star has power but what about the other three? or lets take a closer example, like the one of an animal. an animal is powerful and wise in instinct but it lacks in justice and the capacity to love. is this not incredible that only humans like you and me match all of this qualities, one by one. yes both man and women have the capacity to use their physical power to work and do good. also they have the wisdom to use it correctly and to know what is right and wrong and what pleases God and what he dissaproves. then we have a sense of justice that no one else has. I have never seen a dog not eat the food of the other less strong puppy because it would not be just to take what is not his. we have the ability to help each other and to set rules that benefit all in the house hold or community so that it will be fair as far as we can. and last but most important of all we have the ability to Love. God gives us each and every single day the opportunity to show our love toward each other and most importantly towards him. do you remember that Jesus said? to love our neighbor as ourselves and to love God.\nwhen adam and eve were in paradise, they had a perfect start and opportunity to benefit from God directly and cultivate their, wisdom, justice, and love and make this qualities grow. they could have learned directly from God, but after they sinned they lost favor and were thrown out of paradise.\ngenesis 3:22 And Jehovah God said, "The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever." 23 So Jehovah God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. 24 After he drove