God

everything is an emanation of god, thus being created in his image, even plants and dirt

i think we're just closer in the sense of actually coming to understanding him better

god is in everything, everything has some sort of intelligence, a 'knowing' just like the knowing you get when spirituality awakened is the same 'knowing' a plant has just a different level

 

I think the OP is right in some ways, but this hits the nail on the head.

I'd agree that we are created "in His image" because we have morals and can know what is right and is wrong... but it's more than that.

If God is all knowing and all powerful (omniscient and omnipotent), then He is Everything. God is the First Cause. He is all energy. All of us individuals are a small portion of that energy, but god is the Sum, the Collective Whole.

So yes, of course we were created in His image. We were created by him, from him. Even if you deny (or like me, just dont know) whether God is a thinking being, you cannot deny that all of our energy, and everything else in this Universe, came from something, something caused it to come into existence. This First Cause, Initial Cause, the Source, the Creator, whatever you want to call it... that is God.

 

If there is a God, we don't know him. Religion has nothing to do with spirituality and God, and because of that nobody can know God.

 

You say you don't know, but then you conclude that God must be the first cause or unmoved mover. I propose that we cannot claim to know what started the creation of the universe as we know it, but assigning it to a supreme omnipotent being is logical nonsense.

I'm not saying that our universe could not be created by said highly-evolved being, but it would seem to me to be an idea concocted to fill the largest gap in the understanding of our environs: how it all began.

Let the argument begin!

 

I think the same way, maybe there is a god somewhere, but not here.

Completely non existent, we're just stuck in a room figuring things out.

 

I know that there is a God. I what i dont know is the nature of god, or the extent to which God is god-like. Does that make sense?

I agree, it probably was a concocted idea. But i dont think that the Universe has always been this way, or always existed. To me, it makes most sense that it had to come from something. That something is God. That's what i conclude.

 

He also created disabled children then?
Are you really trying to tell me God looks like a downs-syndromed child?

 

What's the importance of knowing he's there?

 

What if "god" was everything that is? What if God was the 10th dimension?

If he created everything in his image, what would it look like if infinity was reflected?

Also what man? A black man, an Asian man, an aborigional man, hispac man, a native american man, a white man? What man?

 

I troll things that are deeply retarded. Like this thread. I've contributed to religous threads positivley in the past but this one's just fucking stupid.
God created man in his image, so why the fuck are we all completely dfferent both outside and inside? And how does that even work if you've just said God has no image?
Fail thread is fail.

 

No dude, you fail at abstract thinking.

Contribute, say something nice, or GTFO.

If you think it has to do with how you look, and the physical appearance of God, you are sadly mistaken, and looking past true meaning.

Go find a bridge to live under, troll.

 

Are you really suggesting God can be seen?

God isnt some old man with a beard floating on a cloud in the sky.

I cant say what God is, because lets face it, we dont know, but we can safely exclude your notion of God from the rest of the possibilities.

Are you implying that people with down's syndrome are not people? do they not have souls? Do they not have energy? Are they not part of the collective whole, along with the dirt, the gold the diamonds, and the snails? God is the Sum.

 

My point is if can't can't be seen how can we be in God's image?
Once again, fail thread is fail.

I said they weren't people? You're the first to say that, that's kind of offensive you should probably think of their feelings first.
God, in most probability does not exist.
And the question I asked still stands.
If you don't know what God is, and if we are all different how are we in his image?

 

I guess it depends on your beliefs with who really created who in who's image...

For those who question their beliefs, it's sort of a "which came first, the chicken or the egg" issue.

For the true atheist, there is no chicken, thus end of argument.

We all see and find beauty in different ways. I feel that God is merely our own interpretation of all that is good within what we see individually, which is why "God" can mean so many things to so many people spread across so many religions.