Man in gods image... How ?

In todays society, the image of god in man has usually pointed towards either the body or the mind.. I was thinking for a bit and I'd like to add another possibility... Creation itself as a skill, or ability if you will.First of all, I have to say that I am new to this forum, and I'm not actually christian, but this popped into my mind and I figured it was worth a shot.. surely tell me if I'm stating anything really false here.Half the people I asked this explained that our bodies are this image that is representative of god.. The other half speak of humans containing intelligence, which puts us above the animals..Both I think arent true, first of all, why would our body, something so diverse and erm, ugly and frail and really not logical (if you look at nature, were very weak in body in comparison, without any real skills that define us).. So I'm stepping away from that one.And the intelligence, I think that most people can agree by now that there are a lot of animals that can adapt beyond what they are used to, from a wolf in a new environment to a dolphin threatened by something new.. Some might not agree with this though, it doesnt really matter for the discussion, for now please assume that intelligence is not a trait that defines us as special... Or that really makes us gods image.So what then ?Imagine this, what can god do that we can do ??.. God can create, to bluntly put it, god can create lots.. But so can we, i've been looking around the internet, but apart from birds creating a nest and beavers creating a dam.. Still, these look more like programmed things (they know how to do it pretty much from birth). And the materials are always the same, what ever is available closeby is used.Now we humans, we have searched, found, processed and created using techniques well beyond what our own bodies can do. Techniques half the world dont even understand.. But they come from thoughts and experiments.. We can trully create something out of nearly nothing (I say nearly, we can do a lot with little if needed, but we cant create out of nothing)..But really, the point is this.. Perhaps this skill, to build to create beyond what is in reach, beyond what we can do ourselves.. Perhaps this creation ability is what makes us gods image ?Edited by Zucadragon, : No reason given.

Erm, I dont know how this system works really, it has confused me so far.. But I think I'm supposed to say I think this is supposed to go to "Bible Study".. But I'm not sure ^^..

and I have done so ^^.. I found the rules by the way... So I'm going to look through those a bit aswell... But yeah, thanks.

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Remember that in Genesis God created man from His own image during creation. In other words, a lot of things have happenned since that might have altered the image that was put here on Earth.

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While there vague descriptions in the bible of how people worked and toiled back in the days, we really have no idea how they might have been different than us. Remember that the Fall had made everything begin to slowly deteriorate. What we have today as a typical human might not be anywhere near what the original humans were.

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The deteriation isnt so much a fact, but if we are or arent deteriating in any way.. The fact remains that we are changing, humanity is.. A man from the past would have trouble living in todays world, as would a man of today have trouble in the past. If this is positive or negatice is really hard to say in my eyes, we might have lost certain connection and at the same we might have made new ones (connections aiming at the original image of gods creation)
And the wild diversity in human beings found today makes it really hard to point out any trait that is seen as original..
Am I making sense here ??. If not, then I'll try this part again, lets continue though.

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I don't see how your descriptions of dolphins and such have anything to do with human intelligence or consciousness.

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Well, I was trying to make a point towards intelligence not being a trait only humans posess.. Even though in degrees of intelligence, I easily say that humans stand above the rest.I guess such a statement would be up to debate, and hard to defend seeing that most information on animal intelligence and reaction is wel.. Incomplete. Assumptions are made but no real means have been to found to really validate any of them.But anyways, simply said, I was trying to remove intelligence as a unique skill present in mankind.

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I have to admit that this is a very unique idea, one that I admittedly haven't encountered until today.

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In perspective, I guess this one can actually be researched, or observed, we know man creates and the only thing stopping it from really being a unique skill presented to man alone, is finding an animal that has the same skill.Edited by Zucadragon, : improving some grammar mistakes I found

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Well, the Jewish interpretation is that the 'spirit' of man is similar to the 'spirit' of God. God has no form per say, but, like man, has a 'personality' (to lack a better term). It is an attempt by the early writers of the bible to seperate man from the rest of the animals.
The jewish interpretation is very much on the 'spirtual/mind/personalty'
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Well basically, if god is the creator of everything, then theres a bit of god in everything (some believe that the world and the laws are supported on the power of god).. If theres bits of god in everything (spiritual I mean ofcourse) then you can easily say that you have some of gods spirit,power,whatever.All in all, its not a good way to look at it, because its too much of a factor that can be twisted towards whatever you want it to mean... Then it would just be waiting for something that 'might' be defined as special, and it could be called part of gods spirit.Edited by Zucadragon, : heh, just edited a bit to make it erm, less chaotic.

I appologise, but right now I do not have the time to come her and discuss this further, I will return as soon as I can, my appologies.Zuca