What does that mean?
I always thought it meant freewill, the ability to choose right or wrong, things of the spirit. Some believe that it means God looks very much like us.
In His Image
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Fainn
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In His Image
It takes a smart eye feller to say, "I feller smart".
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Goose55
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Re: In His Image
This verse comes to mind....
1 John 3:2 King James Version (KJV)
2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
"At present we're on the wrong side of the door. But all the pages of the New Testament are rustling with the rumor that it will not always be so." ~ C.S. Lewis
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Ether
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Re: In His Image
Dear Fainn, I think John Paul II has opened a door for a better understanding of this topic. If you want to look at it from his perspective, I can recommend you to do some reading on "communio personarum" or the "community of persons".
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Re: In His Image
IMO, being made in His Image is what gives us our superior creative, relational, and dominative attributes. We are, in a way, "little gods" and the crowning achievement of God's creation.
Animals don't have that. That's why we can eat them!
Animals don't have that. That's why we can eat them!
"Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven" - Jesus
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"More people need to put their big boy britches on." - JMG
"Dang, a pipe slap." - JimVH