(October 4, 2015 at 8:16 pm)robvalue Wrote: So I hear from Christians how God made us in his image. So that surely means we are like him, or at least look like him. Clearly in Genesis, he's just some dude wandering around the earth.
But when asked to describe God, we get a weird word salad that usually starts with him being immaterial and ethereal and not looking like anything. What gives? I suspect that most Christians still imagine an actual person when they think about God, even if their description of him when asked tries to hide this. I wonder how accurate I am with that. Of course I may be wrong.
I like your question. Excuse me for not answering you yesterday I had to give this one some thought. In Christianity there is the triune God, no you will not find the word trinity in the bible. So God is immaterial but Jesus has a number of times made himself material in the old testament and in the new testament he has put on flesh. God must be immaterial if he is going to be everywhere at once.
When it says we were made in a image of God I would take it as saying we are like little models of God or self portraits. We have a physical and we have a spiritual aspect of us. We have attributes that are similar to Him but on a lesser scale and some not at all. Adam and Eve were the most like him when they were sinless but now with sin in the world we have marred that image.
God the Father and God the Holy Spirit are immaterial and God the Son has a body. When I think of God there are a number of images I have of Him and none are perfect. He is beyond what I can even fathom and He is hard to pin down because He is so totally other.
