We are made in His likeness?
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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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of course he was created by god\nwho else will create the magnificant human being than god?well..jesus still just a ordinary human with big responsibility i guess
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hehehe so true. Welll now we are cloned and impersonated so add that to your list LOL
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Well, since he created us all, he must be powerful. There are many stories in the Bible that show us this.
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God is a loving Father in heaven and He loves us.  We were created in his image and our purpose in life is to strive to be like him.
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Well, I am a believer but I will answer your question anyway---\n\nGod said: “Let us make man in our image.” (Ge 1:26) What a historic pronouncement! And what a singular position in history Adam, the “son of God,” holds—the first human creature! (Lu 3:38) Adam was the crowning glory of God's earthly creative works, not only because of the timing near the close of six creative epochs but, more importantly, because “in God’s image he created him.” (Ge 1:27) This is why the perfect man Adam, and his degenerate offspring to a much lesser degree, possessed mental powers and abilities far superior to all other earthly creatures.\nMade in the likeness of his Grand Creator, Adam had the divine attributes of love, wisdom, justice, and power; hence he possessed a sense of morality involving a conscience, something altogether new in the sphere of earthly life. In the image of God, Adam was to be a global administrator and have in subjection the sea and land creatures and the fowl of the air.\nIt was not necessary for Adam to be a spirit creature, in whole or in part, to possess Godlike qualities. God formed man out of the dust particles of the ground, put in him the force of life so that he became a living soul, and gave him the ability to reflect the image and likeness of his Creator. “The first man is out of the earth and made of dust.” “The first man Adam became a living soul.” (Ge 2:7; 1Co 15:45, 47) That was in the year 4026 B.C.E. It was likely in the fall of the year, for mankind’s most ancient calendars began counting time in the autumn around October 1, or at the first new moon of the lunar civil year. \nI hope this helps an unbeliever to believe.
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God is a figment of mans imagination, therefore he is whatever you think he is. Imagine he changes and he changes.
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We don't know who he will be for sure. We will recognize him by several ways. Reinstitution and corruption of worship\nin the temple, all the world agreeing on his leadership,and several other distort attempts at appearing to fulfill prophecy. "No man will know the day, or the hour.
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Each person is uniquely and individually made.  God knew us EACH even before we were in the womb.  He knows us individually.\n\nJer 1:5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee,\n\nAND \n\nHe knows every hair on our head!\n\nLuke 12:7 But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.\n\nAND\n\nThe Bible says that we are in the hand of God.  Do you think that God knows who is in His own hand?  Of course!  Speaking of the Saints (us) Jesus says:\n\nJohn 10:29My Father, which gave [them] me, is greater than all; and no [man] is able to pluck [them] out of my Father's hand.
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We created him after our own image.
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We were all created in the image of God and He created us to love, live for, and to worship Him. It's so wonderful.............
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We our created in Gods image... God came in the flesh through Christ..
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God, who made us is love, so we as beings made in His image love. It give meaning to life. All the  material things which we have amassed is nothing compared with this intangible thing we call love.
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We are not trying to be as great or greater than the Creator rather we are, by our work trying to mirror the greatness of our Creator. Each of us is a manifestation of God, an expression of God's Divinity, and an image of the infiniteness of God's Being. Our attempt at greatness is in no way a means to rival that of God's own grandeur and glory but a desire to express this grandeur and glory through ourselves. What better way for God to see the fruits of his labors than in the perfecting of his own Creation.\n\nWhat many of us fail to realize is the unity of all of creation. We are all of the same stuff of which God is made of. In the beginning there is/was  ONLY God, so what else could we be made of but of the same substance as that which is the only one in existence.\n\nWhen we see others as separate from us, we lose this sense of unity or oneness with our Creator. Then and only then will the whole tower come tumbling down.
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People want Christ to look like them, so they can relate. I don't know what He really looked like, but I think when we see Him again, everyone will recognize him. Since the Bible says we are made in the image of God, perhaps we will each see God the way we want.
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from dust to dust... God create as from dust to remind us without HIM, we are nothing... All perfect things come from GOD... from meaningless to a glorify creature, because people are created in HIS Image... without HIS image then we're nothing.. He's planning not by coincidence... I put some verse, hopefully help us...\n\nThe LORD God took a handful of SOIL and made a MAN. God breathed LIFE into the man, and the man started BREATHING \n(Gen 2:7)\n\nGod said, "Now we will make humans, and they will be like us. We will let them rule the fish, the birds, and all other living creatures." So God created humans to be like himself; he made men and women. \n(Gen 1:26-27)\n\n\nGbu
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Um... were you "created"?