God made man in his own image

[eccles]

Here is a question to throw at those Christians:

If God made man in his own image, then has God got a dick. Has God got a belly button? If the answer is "Yes" then if God has a belly button, who was his mother and who was his father?

[Biblical Historian]

Their reply is that image does not refer to the physical or material attributes. The spiritual side is emphasised. Being in God's likeness refers to moral and social attributes as well as intellect, especially reason and will. Mind you Christians themselves do not always agree on what being in his image and likeness means. And I doubt the bible spells it out clearly.

[atheist echo]

I also love the way Xians try to explain the anomoly of men being created "...in our image" (as stated in Genesis) They try to say it's the Holy Trinity neglecting the samll problem that this was a concept invented much later.

[atheist_angel]

transliterations always drive me crazy because they are written backwards!

[atheist_angel]

@Ms AA: So it was paternal grandfather's side of the family that made me write left-handed, right-to-left!

You've cleared up a mystery. Oy!
Ya never know! ;)


but yeah, the transliteration is reading like... beast the and her species of to land the of animal.. bleh!

It would be easier if they were written in the same direction as the Hebrew. Don't get why they write it in the direction of the English.

[Loki]

If God made man in his own image, then has God got a dick.

Now here's the tricky bit for monotheists. What does he do with it?


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[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

The funny thing is, he had a son, who happened to be himself, who was not the first man on the planet, and yet he created another person (Adam) who happened to be the first man on the planet, and even though Mary was the mother of Jesus who is God who is the father of Jesus who is God who created Eve from the ribs of Adam and made him his wife, apparently Eve was the first woman on the planet.

[Atrax Robustus]

Now here's the tricky bit for monotheists. What does he do with it?


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Shakes it. Only once though!

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

Now here's the tricky bit for monotheists. What does he do with it?


.He creates a woman and impregnates her with himself. :p

[Loki]

No, No, No, No

Whether he could make himself some sex toys is not the issue.

If it was already there then it must have been there for a reason. Either god was not alone but part of a population of gods (not good for the monotheists), or he came into being as the only one of his species and was therefore a wanker. Apparently masturbation is a sin, which leaves some other questions for the xians.

[Lord Blackadder]

Now here's the tricky bit for monotheists. What does he do with it?

Personally, I've always thought that God was a wanker...

[Lord Blackadder]

Freud would have a field day.

[atheist echo]

transliterations always drive me crazy because they are written backwards!
Indeed.

[senectus]

The title of this thread is wrong..
it should be
Man made God in his own image...

[Logic please]

The title of this thread is wrong..
it should be
Man made God in his own image...

Yes.... ALL of them!!! :D

[Dan]

Joseph got seriously ripped off, stuck with Child support for a bastard son that isn't even his. Seriously Joseph I know you want to think the best of your wife but you should have just dumped the bitch.

[Sanity personified]

Here is a question to throw at those Christians:

If God made man in his own image, then has God got a dick. Has God got a belly button? If the answer is "Yes" then if God has a belly button, who was his mother and who was his father?

The idea is that we were not made in God's physical image. The story is that God made us good and pure without the potential for evil... just like him. We only developed the potential for evil when the woman that was made from the rib of the man that had been made from dirt ate from the tree that grows magical fruit because she was tricked by a talking snake.

[Rockpervert]

Here is a question to throw at those Christians:

If God made man in his own image, then has God got a dick. Has God got a belly button? If the answer is "Yes" then if God has a belly button, who was his mother and who was his father?

Smart mother fu**er! I really like that one... :D

[Biblical Historian]

Mind you Christians themselves do not always agree on what being in his image and likeness means. And I doubt the bible spells it out clearly.

I've just looked at Genesis. I think I was wrong. I think the bible does spell it out it. Genesis 5:3 reads Adam "became the father of a son in his likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth." Take into account that God walked in human form (Genesis 3:8), and that other ANE cultures described their gods with physical charateristics, why should we not believe that is how the ancient Israelites believed god to be? Therefore, being created in his image and likeness does inlcude physical charateristics. Of course later generations progressed by adding the idea that god is spirit. But why should we not believe that the early bible stories teach god as having human features?

Therefore the history of the idea of God is the following:
God in human form, here on this earth (Genesis 3)
God elevated to a mountain (Moses and Mt Sinai)
God elevated to the heavens somwehre in the clouds (later parts of OT and NT)
God elevated to a new spiritual dimension (Classical-Platonic Christian theology)
You would think God could not go further, but then enter quantum physics and the theists had a field day.