RE: What does in God’s image mean? He created Adam & Eve without a moral sense.
March 31, 2012 at 6:23 pm
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[quote]What does in God’s image mean? [/quote]
With a gooey spirit center. (with a soul)
[quote]He created Adam & Eve without a moral sense.[/quote]
As the bible outlines morality yes. They only knew the expressed will of God. They did not know sin and could not water down God righteousness with it, thus creating "morality."
Morality= man's attempt at God's righteous standard with the sin man is willing to live with Incorporated into it.
[quote]I take, in God’s image, to refer to God’s and our mental image and not the physical. God does not look like us in any way. He and his form is quite alien to us.[/quote]Christ is God and He was one of us
[quote]Genesis shows that Adam & Eve were created without the moral sense that would make them like Gods. That being the case, they had to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil to be in God’s mental image.[/quote]You seem to be Working with a bad understanding of the "image of God."
[quote]That is without a doubt a requirement to the development of a moral sense and is confirmed by God after Adam and Eve disobeyed his command to stay dumb and without a moral sense.[/quote]Moral meaning what?
[quote]If they were created in God’s image then they would have already had the moral sense that comes from the knowledge of good and evil and would therefore not have been tempted by Satan to eat of the tree of knowledge because they would have had that knowledge already. This would also mean that God was punishing them unjustly.[/quote]
How so?
[quote]One must conclude from these biblical facts, that God did not make mankind in his image.[/quote]-Or- God did not make man kind in your understanding of "His Image."
[quote]Could that be why God is shown as doing other immoral things in scriptures?[/quote]absolutely if you look at the scripturally back definition of "morality." (Man made righteousness or Self righteousness.)
[quote]The two main ones that come to mind is God having his own son murdered for the forgiveness of sin when there was no real need to and the genocide of Noah’s day.[/quote] Perhaps it is your understanding of those two events that causes you to think this way. Can you explain how these two events do not make sense to you?
[quote]Does being in God's image mean not having a moral sense?[/quote]Again I need you to define morality. where does it come from what standard is it built on, does it change, who decides how and when to change it?
Regards
Drich
[quote]What does in God’s image mean? [/quote]
With a gooey spirit center. (with a soul)
[quote]He created Adam & Eve without a moral sense.[/quote]
As the bible outlines morality yes. They only knew the expressed will of God. They did not know sin and could not water down God righteousness with it, thus creating "morality."
Morality= man's attempt at God's righteous standard with the sin man is willing to live with Incorporated into it.
[quote]I take, in God’s image, to refer to God’s and our mental image and not the physical. God does not look like us in any way. He and his form is quite alien to us.[/quote]Christ is God and He was one of us
[quote]Genesis shows that Adam & Eve were created without the moral sense that would make them like Gods. That being the case, they had to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil to be in God’s mental image.[/quote]You seem to be Working with a bad understanding of the "image of God."
[quote]That is without a doubt a requirement to the development of a moral sense and is confirmed by God after Adam and Eve disobeyed his command to stay dumb and without a moral sense.[/quote]Moral meaning what?
[quote]If they were created in God’s image then they would have already had the moral sense that comes from the knowledge of good and evil and would therefore not have been tempted by Satan to eat of the tree of knowledge because they would have had that knowledge already. This would also mean that God was punishing them unjustly.[/quote]
How so?
[quote]One must conclude from these biblical facts, that God did not make mankind in his image.[/quote]-Or- God did not make man kind in your understanding of "His Image."
[quote]Could that be why God is shown as doing other immoral things in scriptures?[/quote]absolutely if you look at the scripturally back definition of "morality." (Man made righteousness or Self righteousness.)
[quote]The two main ones that come to mind is God having his own son murdered for the forgiveness of sin when there was no real need to and the genocide of Noah’s day.[/quote] Perhaps it is your understanding of those two events that causes you to think this way. Can you explain how these two events do not make sense to you?
[quote]Does being in God's image mean not having a moral sense?[/quote]Again I need you to define morality. where does it come from what standard is it built on, does it change, who decides how and when to change it?
Regards
Drich
