...this biblical quote is taken too literally.

I don't think God has an "image"...that is a human concept we try to attribute to a spiritual being.

Maybe "God's image" just means that humankind was given the power to think, create, build, and destroy--like God, in a sense, just on a smaller level. God had the universe, we were given the Earth.

We are an expression, a piece of the Divinity, of the universe--hence, God's "image". We can tap into God's power whenever we feel the need (thru prayer, meditation, etc). We are a reflection of a higher force in thought and action--not necessarily in a literal sense (e.g. the old white/black man in the sky).

At least that's what I'm beginning to think. Because there seem to be too many "images" for God to have presented Itself as one or the other.

Of course, in that revelation, they would have seen God as God made sense to them. The human brain has a way of compensating. But I think there is more to the Supreme Being than a simple human form.


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