Why do some people think God looks like a man?  Man came from monkies and sea, so God may resemble a fish or ?
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I also understand evolution to be true.\nWe "paint" God as a man becaue we have no other understanding. We are only human after all.
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we are created in the image and likeness of god..but what is an image?   if you look in a mirror, you see an image... or if you look in clear water you can see yourself.... what you see you cannot touch because it is not physical.... it is a image made of rays of light relected off the mirror or shiny surface....when we  were made inGod's image, he took his light and formed our spirits.....and put that into a physical body... that made us different from the animals who had bodies but no spirit. EVen though all creation demonstrates god's glory, only man can "reflect back" his exact image in our spirits.
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Jesus talks about being fishers of people.  People are searching for the truth and a genuine sense of community. Alot of organized religious groups will claim to be fishers but in a sense toss folks back out to the waters because they refuse to accept them.  In your instance it would seem to me that the man is some kind of legalistic person (religion with all the rules).  The fish represents a person seeking the truth, maybe its a relationship with you.  But then for some reason you reject them and then they respond with emotion.  But its not too late to ask for forgiveness from that person and move on in a new friendship with them.
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God appears to be quite a sexist bit of work. Could be jealousy.... as a 'masculine' deity, he can't give birth.Maybe he could do with a bit of balance. (shrugs)
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I believe (as a Christian) that God made us humans in his own likeness, and everything else was not specifically in his image. He also breathed life into humans himself. He gave us and only us souls. That's what I think. It's up to you to decide for yourself.\nThanks,\n~Me
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The moment u can give any image to God, he is not God. God is actually NOOR (i.e. light). Be logical, if the God would be just like u and me with 2 eyes and ears, whats the use of worshipping him? God is not physical...
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There is no such thing as god, its a man made concept.\nDont worry about it. When you die your dead thats it.
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Some people believe God is a woman. Some people believe that God is both male and female. Some people believe that God is neither male nor female. And some people believe that God is male, female, both AND neither all at the same time.\n\nThere's also people that call female god "Goddess". There's people that believe in many Gods and/or many Goddesses.\n\nBasically, if someone could think up of a religious concept, whatever it may be, there's probably someone out there that believes in it.
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My description of god is summed up in saying God is a grown ups makebelieve friend.  Don't know if its right or not but seems logical seeings how we don't ever see the guy.
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Humans have almost always looked to one god or another to help them explain things they could not understand as well as to use to control the masses around them ... don't think that the "christain" god is anything other than a new god on the block ... there have always been gods for as long as there have been men and yes, they are the creations of our minds and not the other way around ...
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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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Adam was made in the image of God and the angels.\n\nGenesis 1:26\nThen God said"let us make man in OUR image, occording to OUR likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air,and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on earth."\n\nGenesis 1:27\n\nSo God created man in his own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.\n\nGenesis 1:28\n\nThen God blessed them, and God said to them," be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.
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Hi Lois7mat!\n\nSince you asked a biblical question, lets check what the Bible says about that:\n\nIn Genesis 1: 26-27\n\nThen 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."\n\nSo God created man in his own image,in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them\n\nFurther in the book of Hebrews, it is also written:\n\nBut there is a place where someone has testified:\n   "What is man that you are mindful of him,\n      the son of man that you care for him?\n    You made him a little[a] lower than the angels;\n      you crowned him with glory and honor\n      and put everything under his feet?\n\nSince the Bible is clear about this thing, then the most important creation would be MAN (when I say man, I refer to both man and woman).\n\nI hope this helps you.
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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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You have to understand first that we are not on the same realm as God.  God is higher than us.  His ways and his thought are higher than ours.  We should never question anything that God has done\n\nAs for where God came from...God has always been.  It is hard for us to imagine this because we think only as humans.  To us,  there is a beginning and an ending to all things.  Not to God.  God always has been and always will be.
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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
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Let us not forget:  Man created God, not the other way around.  Man created God to get him through whatever dilemna he was facing at the time.  Can't explain something rationally?  "Must be a god out there calling all the shots, right"?  Wrong.  There is a scientific explaination for EVERYTHING, it's just that we are not smart enough to know EVERYTHING yet.  In time.....