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Author Topic:   Man in gods image... How ?
Chiroptera
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Message 35 of 82 (437569)
11-30-2007 3:12 PM
Reply to: Message 32 by fred
11-30-2007 9:55 AM


It seems obvious that man being made in Gods image cannot refer to physical attributes, since God is spirit & man is flesh.
Doesn't seem obvious to me. As you put it in another thread, there's no evidence that God is solely spirit. God is constantly described with physical attributes, so the safest assumption seems to be that God had physical attributes.

Progress in human affairs has come mainly through the bold readiness of human beings not to confine themselves to seeking piecemeal improvements in the way things are done, but to present fundamental challenges in the name of reason to the current way of doing things and to the avowed or hidden assumptions on which it rests. -- E. H. Carr

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Chiroptera
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Message 38 of 82 (437577)
11-30-2007 3:48 PM
Reply to: Message 37 by iceage
11-30-2007 3:42 PM


Re: The LORD is Man o' War
quote:
The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name." (Exodus 15:3)
I think that is a mistranslation. The Semitic languages like Aramaic and Hebrew, I believe, did not have articles. So clearly the literal meaning of the verse is that the Lord is a race horse.
Okay. I'll stop now.

Progress in human affairs has come mainly through the bold readiness of human beings not to confine themselves to seeking piecemeal improvements in the way things are done, but to present fundamental challenges in the name of reason to the current way of doing things and to the avowed or hidden assumptions on which it rests. -- E. H. Carr

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